Jane Austen Quotes, Important Quotes

Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

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Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

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How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

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Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

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When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.

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Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

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Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

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... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

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Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

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What strange creatures brothers are!

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The sooner every party breaks up the better.

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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

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she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

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I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.

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All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.

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Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

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There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.

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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

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