Jane Austen Quotes, Library Quotes, Neglect Quotes

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

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Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

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From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

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I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.

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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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Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare.

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When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

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I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

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The less said the better.

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Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

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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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The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart

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It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

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In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

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…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

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Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

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A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

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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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Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

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I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

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