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Jane Austen Quotes - Page 10

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Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

Giving, Water, Relief

Jane Austen (2015). “Emma: 200th-Anniversary Annotated Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.467, Penguin

Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Religious, Past, Way

Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.77

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Funny, Sports, Laughter

Pride and Prejudice ch. 57 (1813)

It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

Pride, Taught, Prejudice

"Fictional character: Mr Darcy". "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 16, 1813.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Love, Enthusiasm, Mansfield Park

Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.360, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

Wish, Shy, Natural

"Sense and Sensibility". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 17, 1811.

A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

Mother, Influence, Constant

Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.56, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Strength, Hate, Women

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Inspiring, Literature, Speak

Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.41, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

Character, Desire, Littles

"Fictional character: Jane Austen". "Becoming Jane", 2007.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Love, Funny, Romantic

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.104, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Selfish, Practice, Principles

'Pride and Prejudice' (1813) ch. 58 (Mr Darcy)

Arguments are too much like disputes.

Too Much, Argument, Disputes

Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.36, BookBaby

An annuity is a very serious business.

Serious Business, Serious

Sense and Sensibility vol. 1, ch. 2 (1811)

Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing - fortifying and bracing - seemingly just as was wanted - sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.

Healing, Sea, Air

Jane Austen (2015). “Sanditon”, p.12, Xist Publishing

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

Half, Literature, States

Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.438

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

Men, Would Be, Disagreeable

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.15

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Forgiveness, Pride, Mrs Bennet

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.16

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

Writing, Suspense, Ends

Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.379

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

Girl, Mrs Bennet, Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice ch. 24 (1813)

Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.

Love Is, Labor, Ifs

You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.

Angel, Quality, Degrees

Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.387, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

Mrs Bennet, Understanding, Pleasure

Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.89, Lulu.com

You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.

Thinking, Disgusted, Deference

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.333

It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

Perfect, Too Short, Delightful

Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.919, BookBaby

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