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Jane Austen Quotes - Page 24

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I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

Eye, Pride, Pretty Woman

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.22

I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.

Garden, Walks

"Fictional character: Charlotte Lucas". "Pride and Prejudice/ Episode #1.3", www.imdb.com. 1995.

Evil to some is always good to others

Evil

Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.233

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Inspiring, Believe, Church

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.532, Wordsworth Editions

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

Marriage, Struggle, Long

Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.389, BookCaps Study Guides

All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.

Sex, Women, Gone

'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 23 (Anne Eliot)

Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.

Night, Thinking, Together

Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.348, BookCaps Study Guides

You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

Mother, Generosity, Giving

Jane Austen (2016). “The Letters of Jane Austen”, p.81, Jane Austen

If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.

Good Luck, Men, Mr Collins

Jane Austen (2006). “The Complete Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.497, Penguin

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

Character, Vanity, Persuasion

1818 Persuasion, ch.1.

To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind

Real, Men, Mind

Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.193, MobileReference

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

Inspiring, Sorry, Giving

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.16, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.

Disappointment, Successful, Promise

Jane Austen (1946). “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, p.143, PDFreeBooks.org

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

Heart, Unsaid

Jane Austen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jane Austen (Illustrated)”, p.833, Delphi Classics

She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.

Kings, Spain, Reign

Jane Austen (2015). “Love and Freindship: Top Essays”, p.50, 谷月社

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.

Perfect, Age, Perfect Happiness

"Fictional character: The Voice of Jane Austen". "Northanger Abbey", www.imdb.com. March 25, 2007.

For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?

Sports, Neighbor, Reviews

Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

Silly, Conceited, Men

Jane Austen (1946). “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, p.82, PDFreeBooks.org

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.

Heart, Men, Feelings

Jane Austen (2008). “Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels)”, p.196, Mondial

I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

Marriage, Dance, Country

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

Doe, Records, May

Jane Austen (2016). “Jane Austen Six Pack - Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion”, p.1636, Enhanced Media Publishing

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

Stupid, Men, Knowing

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.664, Google Publishing

A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

Mother, Children, Sick

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.703, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Pay, Doe, Expecting

Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.980, Ageless Reads

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

Wish, Novelists, Genius

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