Jane Austen Quotes

Is not poetry the food of love?

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One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

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From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.

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I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.

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Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.

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You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

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Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.

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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.

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I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.

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It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.

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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

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I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

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I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

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We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

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I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

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You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

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The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

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