Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“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… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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