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Funny Quotes by Jane Austen
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
- There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
- Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
- What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
- Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
- Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
- An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
- How much I love every thing that is decided and open!
- There are secrets in all families.
- The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think…
- Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.
- Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
- I am excessively diverted.
- If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.
- A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.
- Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
- Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
- I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.
- I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.
- Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
- One can never have too large a party.
- Is not poetry the food of love?
- Till this moment I never knew myself.
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