"But when a young lady is to be……" — Jane Austen
"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 throw a hero in her way."
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691 Quotes by Jane Austen
Jane Austen has 691 quotes on this site.
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being…
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect…
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce…
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Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is…
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Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man…
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Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival.
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Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the…
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To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we…
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We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are…
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In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot…
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You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.
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I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they'll turn that anger…
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Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.
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I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans…
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