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Cannot Quotes by Jane Austen
- Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
- A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
- What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
- I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
- One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
- An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
- Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than…
- Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint…
- I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You…
- Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so…
- I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little…
- I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a…
- I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I…
- I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at…
- Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as…
- But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to…
- I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy
- Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.
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