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Nature Quotes by Jane Austen

39 Nature quotes by Jane Austen

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Jane Austen writes that a night sky can quiet wickedness and sorrow, offering a calm view of the world. She notes that an early love of nature fuels imagination and prevents boredom. She also observes that people who lack a taste for nature miss a great deal of joy.

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A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.

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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

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“The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur”

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“Human nature needs more lessons than a weekly sermon can convey.”

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“Every thing was to take its natural course, however, neither impelled nor assisted.”

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A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

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I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

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The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she…

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“and yet, it was not in her nature to question the veracity of a young man of such amiable appearance as Wickham.”

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Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is…

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Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

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“The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish…

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“[T]hey are much to be pitied who have not ... been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a…

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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

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“I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.”

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“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is…

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It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her…

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“It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel in some degree…

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Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given…

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“...no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so…

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there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder…

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“You need not hurry when the object is only to prevent my saying a bon mot, for there is not the least…

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“The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish…

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“Elizabeth related to Jane the next day what had passed between Mr. Wickham and herself. Jane listened with astonishment and concern; she…

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The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author;…

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“With a perversity of judgement, which must be attributed to his not having by Nature a very strong head, the Graces, the…

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“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There…

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“Fanny spoke her feelings. "Here's harmony!" said she; "here's repose! Here's what may leave all painting and all music behind, and what…

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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…

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“Captain Harvile: Poor Phoebe, she would not have forgotten him so soon. It was not in her nature. Anne Elliot: It would…

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One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

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“Mrs. Musgrove was of a comfortable substantial size, infinitely more fitted by nature to express good cheer and good humor, than tenderness…

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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies,…

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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…

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“I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.”

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“And, and—we think very differently of the nature of women, if they can imagine a woman so very soon capable of returning…

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“I have none of the usual inducements of women to marry. Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a…

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When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in…

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“if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better:…

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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!”

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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.”