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Moment Quotes by Jane Austen
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
- 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…
- 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…
- She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very…
- She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely,…
- The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
- Till this moment I never knew myself.
- They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly…
- Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will…
- Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.
- 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…
- Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him;…
- Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.
- A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.
- Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and…
- She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to…
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