Feelings Quotes by Jane Austen

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

— Jane Austen

A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

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His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.

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We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

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There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

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“remained with no very cordial feelings toward him.”

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She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

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“Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you imagine that you are gratifying mine?”

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Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she…

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Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh,…

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“Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.”

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It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a…

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I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter…

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Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is…

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Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his…

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if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she…

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“that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that…

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You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at…

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I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of…

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“I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter…

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“but without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error, and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want…

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a…

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Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the…

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“But the same spirits of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is more robust than…

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There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and…

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I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion,…

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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings…

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She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that…

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Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the…

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I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I…

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more…

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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings…

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Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so;…

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“Everybody pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was.…

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We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We…

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There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved.…

— Jane Austen

To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of…

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“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings…

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From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with…

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“...and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its…

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