Awkwardness Quote by Jane Austen

“I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.”

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“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the…

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“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.”

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“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same…

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her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

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“But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.”

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“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”

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Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

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“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment”

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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 awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars

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God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

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