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Wish Quotes by Jane Austen
- 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.
- 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…
- Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world…
- You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections…
- I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.
- She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a…
- 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…
- 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…
- Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do…
- I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
- He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of…
- She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though…
- If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force…
- 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…
- 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…
- My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the…
- To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
- She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to…
More Wish Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine