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Would Be Quotes by Jane Austen
- It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than…
- for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
- We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
- Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing; but I have never been in love ; it is not my…
- If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.
- She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.
- Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do…
- It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations…
- 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…
- Without music, life would be a blank to me.
- Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind,…
- How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and…
- I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
- Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should…
- When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and…
- It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.
- I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world…
More Would Be Quotes
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- If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. — David Attenborough
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed… — David Attenborough
- There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication. — Margaret Atwood
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around… — Saint Augustine
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius