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Nothing Quotes by Jane Austen
- There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
- Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
- A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
- It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the…
- She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.
- Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face…
- I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.
- I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You…
- Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
- There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is…
- Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so…
- What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner, I hope, for, by that…
- What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for…
- We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
- It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that…
- Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
- There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.
- Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and…
- The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as…
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