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My Own Quotes by Jane Austen
- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.
- 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…
- All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.
- I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any…
- I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I…
- but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
- 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…
- My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the…
- I do not cough for my own amusement.
- I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
- You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I…
- I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my…
More My Own Quotes
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. — Rodney Atkins
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. — Diane Ackerman
- If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though. — Kevin Bacon
- I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much… — Amy Adams
- I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. — Mikhail Bakunin
- I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene. — Christian Bale