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Happiness Quotes by Jane Austen

91 Happiness quotes by Jane Austen

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Marriage luck is mentioned as a matter of chance, not something you can plan. The quotes suggest that each person must decide for themselves what makes them happy, and that wealth and status have only a small role. They also show a character feeling happy even when she doubts it.

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“Money is the best recipe for happiness.”

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Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

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“Let those who want to be happy ... be firm”

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Know your own happiness.

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“Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.”

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She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

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But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

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I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

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It's such a happiness when good people get together.

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Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

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I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I…

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“…Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to be so…”

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“You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who would make…

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I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he…

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“I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness,”

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“...And talking of the dear family party which would then be restored, of their mutual pursuits and cheerful society, as the only…

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I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you,…

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“I must endeavor to subdue my mind to my fortune. I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.”

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You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world,…

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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme…

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“The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough…

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“I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such ladies there are) who are so daring…

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“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for…

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What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with…

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He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in…

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“The happiness which this reply produced, was such as he had probably never felt before; and he expressed himself on the occasion…

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“The contents of this letter threw Elizabeth into a flutter of spirits in which it was difficult to determine whether pleasure or…

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“Anne saw nothing, thought nothing of the brilliancy of the room. Her happiness was from within. Her eyes were bright, and her…

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“His happiness in knowing himself to have been so long the beloved of such a heart, must have been great enough to…

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“The delightful assurance of her total indifference towards Frank Churchill, of her having a heart completely disengaged from him, had given birth…

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“Upon my word, sir, your hope is a rather extraordinary one after my declaration. I do assure you that I am not…

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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each…

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“To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of twenty-six and eighteen, is to do pretty well; and professing myself moreover convinced,…

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“Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unalterable Love, in which we were secure…

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“How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

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“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.”

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Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

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“I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.”

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“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!”

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“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.”

“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same…

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

“But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.”

“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”

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

“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment”

“Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared…

“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…”

“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.”