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Jane Austen Quotes - Page 18

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She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

Giving, Pleasure, Sensations

Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.178, BookCaps Study Guides

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Love, Sports, Men

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.699, Wordsworth Editions

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

People, Giving, Cheerful

Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.78, Wild Jot Press

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

Patience, Understanding, Fancy

Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.25, Wild Jot Press

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

Couple, Passion, Together

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.271

I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.

People, Done, Tone

Jane Austen (2005). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.157, Prestwick House Inc

A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

Mind, Income, May

Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.55, Wild Jot Press

There seemed a gulf impassable between them.

Jane Austen, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Jane Austen: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.1592, GENERAL PRESS

It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.

Love

Shinobu Simone, Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice(yaoi novel)”, p.91, Blue Sky

Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?

Cousin, Hair, Diversity

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1085, Wordsworth Editions

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

Expectations, Sanguine

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.6, Wordsworth Editions

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

Stupid, Prejudice, Common

Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.108, Oxford University Press

The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy

Imperfection, Attention, Darcy

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.41

We neither of us perform to strangers.

Pride, Prejudice, Stranger

Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice [The 50 Best Classic Books Ever - # 03]”, p.162, Jane Austen

Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

Mansfield Park, Fatigue, Jane

Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.61

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

Kings, Real, War

'Northanger Abbey' (1818) ch. 14 (Catherine Morland)

His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.

Feelings, Imagine, I Can

Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.225

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

Prejudice, Worthy, Please

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.323

It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.

Writing, Practice, Style

Jane Austen (2012). “Northanger Abbey”, p.12, Courier Corporation

I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

Speech, Might, Able

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Self, Wild Imagination, Literature

Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1554, Ageless Reads

Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.

Genius, Letters, Checks

Jane Austen (2012). “The Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.70, Jazzybee Verlag

I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

Flower, Thinking, Fruit

Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.46, Oxford University Press

Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.

Falling In Love, Thinking, Different

"Emma".

A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Natural, Sequels, Unnatural

'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 4

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