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Very Quotes by Jane Austen
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
- I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
- Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
- Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little…
- He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.
- I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set…
- It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
- How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
- 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…
- I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the…
- it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all…
- 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…
- Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.
- the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth…
- Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
- No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady…
- I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at…
- If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I…
- I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have…
- 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…
- Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
- 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…
- she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which…
- The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
- If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.
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