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Jane Austen Quotes - Page 12

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Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

Pocketbooks, Property

Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

Errors, People, Feelings

Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Brontë (2016). “Classic British Love Stories: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jane Eyre”, p.429, Open Road Media

I have read your book, and I disapprove.

Book

I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

Mistake, Stupid, Character

Jane Austen (2015). “Sense and Sensibility: Ignatius Critical Editions”, p.92, Ignatius Press

There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.

Sweet, Kindness, Grateful

Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Love and Friendship and Other Austin Works”, p.700, Lulu Press, Inc

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

Dance, Believe, Dancing

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.929, Wordsworth Editions

Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

"Fictional character: Fanny Price". "Mansfield Park", www.imdb.com. August 27, 1999.

Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Real, Believe, Pride

"Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen, January 28, 1813.

Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.

Kindness, Thinking, Judging

Jane Austen “Pride and Prejudice”, W. W. Norton & Company

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

Men, Doe, Endeavour

Sophia Bedford-Pierce, Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Little Instruction Book”, p.14, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Dresses, Literature, Solicitude

Jane Austen (2015). “The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works”, p.1560, Wildside Press LLC

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

Men, Leisure, Kitties

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.848, Google Publishing

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

Art, Writing, Paper

Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.71, Oxford University Press

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

Mistress, Calm

Jane Austen (1833). “Sense and Sensibility: A Novel”, p.310

I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.

House, Stupidity, Feelings

Jane Austen (2014). “Emma”, p.188, Lulu.com

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy

Romantic, Love You, Pride

Jane Austen, Joseph Pearce (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.190, Ignatius Press

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Men, Pretty Woman, World

Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.1

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

Beauty, May, Handsome

Jane Austen (2016). “Persuasion”, p.30, Xist Publishing

Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.

Moving, Reading, Voice

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

Falling In Love, Fall, Thinking

Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.184, W. W. Norton & Company

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

Rooms, Speak, Disposition

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.81

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

Life, Change, Opinion

Jane Austen (1811). “Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.217

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Real, Pride, Vanity

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.50

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

Love, Suffering, Doe

Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.404, BookCaps Study Guides

Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.

Dancing, Together, Prejudice

Jane Austen (2007). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.94, Bethany House

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