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Best May Quotes by Jane Austen
- Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that…
- Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same…
- my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to…
- The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart
- What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the…
- Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
- Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind,…
- He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of…
- It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.
- May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am…
- It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the…
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little…
- If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it…
- You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for…
- He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance..
- I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of…
- And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and…
- Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again
- I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward…
- What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.
- A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in…
- Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
- A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
- You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.
- It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any…
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