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Time Quotes by Jane Austen

119 Time quotes by Jane Austen

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Austen notes that time can heal wounds and that scars prove a past was real. She describes a long walk in the woods and the quiet moments when a character decides what to ask or not. She also observes that years of feeling may feel like nothing at all.

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Time will explain.

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Time, time will heal the wound.

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Time did not compose her.

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Our scars make us know that our past was for real

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With a book he was regardless of time.

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Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

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“Let go of the past because its remembrance will give you pleasure.”

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“The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.”

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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

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“Mary could never spare time; but the remaining five set off together.”

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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

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A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

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“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.” ― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship”

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“At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear any thing…

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“Tempo ou oportunidade não determinam a intimidade, apenas a disposição.”

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

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Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

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A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

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

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But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state.…

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“She is not well, she has had a nervous complaint on her for several weeks.' 'I am sorry for that. At her…

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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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“Oh! not handsome—not at all handsome. I thought him very plain at first, but I do not think him so plain now.…

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“I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses! Oh Lord!…

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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…

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She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and…

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“advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known,…

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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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I understand Crawford paid you a visit?" "Yes." "And was he attentive?" "Yes, very." "And has your heart changed towards him?" "Yes.…

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She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances.…

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“He was at that time a very young man, just engaged in the study of the law; and Elizabeth found him extremely…

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Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will…

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“Lady Catherine was extremely indignant on the marriage of her nephew; and as she gave way to all the genuine frankness of…

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“When he was present she had no eyes for any one else. Every thing he did, was right. Every thing he said,…

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“But , Mr. Knightley, are you perfectly sure that she has absolutely and downright accepted him? I could suppose she might in…

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Almost anything is possible with time

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“For a few moments, her imagination and her heart were bewitched.”

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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

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“My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to expressed them.”

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Till this moment I never knew myself.

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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…

“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,…

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.”