"She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and……" — Jane Austen
"She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors."
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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 Arches Quotes
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All experience is an arch, to build upon.
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A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.
— Emily Blunt
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger…
— Martin Luther
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Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
— Thomas Carlyle
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The resurrection is the keystone of the arch on which our faith is supported. If Christ has not risen, we…
— Dwight L. Moody
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Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of…
— Barack Obama
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Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development…
— King Hussein I
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A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.…
— Anthony Trollope
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Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists…
— Eugene V. Debs
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