Jane Austen Quotes, Silly Quotes, Conceited Quotes

Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

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Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

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Obstinate, headstrong girl!

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She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

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a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

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An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

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From politics it was an easy step to silence.

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I was quiet but I was not blind.

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Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

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Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

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She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

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The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!

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She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.

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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

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They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

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