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Some Quotes by Jane Austen
- Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the…
- A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
- She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of…
- The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we…
- It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most…
- From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected…
- You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
- I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.
- Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
- There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And…
- And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a…
- There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others…
- 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…
- Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did…
- Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely…
- 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…
- I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much…
- 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…
- It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with…
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