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Way Quotes by Jane Austen
- One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
- There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of…
- The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for…
- Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
- Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it…
- Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went…
- I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.
- Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my…
- If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more…
- You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you…
- 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…
- Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as…
- But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to…
- Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
- Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing; but I have never been in love ; it is not my…
- There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly,…
- 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…
- You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the…
- I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
- I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible…
- 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…
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