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Psychology Quotes by Jane Austen

71 Psychology quotes by Jane Austen

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Jane Austen shows that people trust honest, open‑hearted friends more than those who speak carelessly. She points out how the mind can tell the difference between a worried expectation and a solid certainty. She also highlights the role of a steady friend who offers calm comfort when others are in distress.

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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

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“[N]obody minds having what is too good for them.”

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“Her mind was less difficult to develop.”

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“For the liveliness of your mind, I did.”

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“I should not mind anything at all.”

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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

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“But her mind was so busily engaged, that she did not always know when she was silent.”

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And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

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“...but a mind of usefulness and ingenuity seemed to furnish him with constant employment within.”

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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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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

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...but there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power...

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Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

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Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under…

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A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who…

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“The World is pretty much divided between the weak of mind & the strong- between those who can act & those who…

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It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our…

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“To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible…

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“Yet there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way…

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Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female…

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“To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible…

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“There, he had learnt to distinguish between the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self-will, between the darings of heedlessness and…

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Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and…

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“She wanted to be alone. Her mind was in a state of flutter and wonder, which made it impossible for her to…

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“She longed to know what at the moment was passing in his mind, in what manner he thought of her, and whether,…

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The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution…

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It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in…

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“She prized the frank, the open-hearted, the eager character beyond all others. Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her still. She felt that…

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“Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of…

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“...she ventured to recommend a larger allowance of prose in his daily study; and on being requested to particularise, mentioned such works…

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“How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind! If any one faculty of our…

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“In addition to what has been already said of Catherine Morland's personal and mental endowments, when about to be launched into all…

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“Elinor saw, and pitied her for, the neglect of abilities which education might have rendered so respectable; but she saw, with less…

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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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“Elinor, this eldest daughter, whose advice was so effectual, possessed a strength of understanding, and coolness of judgment, which qualified her, though…

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“All badinage apart, I don't think you or I very likely to lose our gaiety or our peace of mind for any…

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“I see your face in my mind’s eye under every varying circumstance of the day.”

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“A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper.”

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“To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others”

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“For to be unaffected was all that a pretty girl could want to make her mind as captivating as her person.”

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Let us have the luxury of silence.

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

“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read…

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She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and…

“…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.”