"His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse……" — Jane Austen
"His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything."
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691 Quotes by Jane Austen
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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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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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
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Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley…
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Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of…
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
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