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Body Quotes by Jane Austen
- Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
- It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
- The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for…
- Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world…
- It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every…
- Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to…
- He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
- Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present
- Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.
- Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody…
- You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I…
- A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
- It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any…
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- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine