"What have wealth or grandeur to do with……" — Jane Austen
"What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it..."
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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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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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If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.
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It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.
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Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood
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Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
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Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was…
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She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said…
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I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor
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Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel…
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Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the…
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Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?
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Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so…
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Words are immortal - Elinor
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