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Often 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…
- Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
- Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
- Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
- Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!
- 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…
- 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…
- The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the…
- I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch…
- To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last...
- The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does…
- We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and…
- Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that…
- I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural…
- Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
- 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…
- I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit…
- I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.
- It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.
- [Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called…
- She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually…
- If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from…
- ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
- I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of…
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