"They parted at last with mutual civility, and……" — Jane Austen
"They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again."
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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 Civility Quotes
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove…
— P T Barnum
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That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any…
— Danny Boyle
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Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
— George W. Bush
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I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and…
— Richard Carmona
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Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of…
— Mahnaz Afkhami
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Congratulations is the civility of envy.
— Ambrose Bierce
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God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment…
— Francis Bacon
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He…
— Thomas Adams
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
— Samuel Johnson
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There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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