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Firsts Quotes by Jane Austen
- To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her…
- Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
- The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we…
- The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.
- Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint…
- From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief…
- Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of…
- No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady…
- There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails,…
- You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you…
- It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.
- The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
- The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object…
- You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first…
- I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet
- Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?
- never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in…
- Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy!…
- It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing…
- Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have…
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