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Compliment Quotes by Jane Austen
- Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
- I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.
- To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.
- Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of…
- Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.
- Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and…
- I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
- I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would…
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