"If a woman is partial to a man,……" — Jane Austen
"If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth"
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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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More Conceal Quotes
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one of 308 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid…
— Margaret Atwood
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
— Jane Austen
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Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
— James Agate
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
— Martial
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The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to…
— Osbert Sitwell
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If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.
— Honore de Balzac
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Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their…
— Samuel Johnson
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
— Jean Giraudoux
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