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May Quotes by Jane Austen
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to…
- An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may…
- It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse…
- One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
- Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
- In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party .…
- I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I…
- I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every…
- Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like…
- 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…
- 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 can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites…
- 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?
- I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
- Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.
- If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I…
- If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more…
- Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears…
- I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what…
- There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle