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Jane Austen Quotes - Page 27

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You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

Heart, Eye, Men

Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger Abbey”, p.118

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

Felt, Known

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

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

Men, Romance, Proud

Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.297

“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”

Thinking, Forlorn, Said

"The Complete Novels of Jane Austen".

What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

Mean, One Day, May

Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.89, Wild Jot Press

She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

Desire, Command

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.51, Wordsworth Editions

Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.

Found, Cures, Given

Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.183, MobileReference

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

Young, Contempt, Mere

'Love and Freindship' (written 1790) 'Letter the 13th'

I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

Wish, Might, Compliment

Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

Doe, Sincerity, Emma

Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.272, Wild Jot Press

The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.

Eye, Dancing, Tears

Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.207, BookCaps Study Guides

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

Yield, Understanding, Merit

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.110, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.

Mean, Doubt, Together

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.185, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Song, Book, Men

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

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

Luck, Triumph, Talent

Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.8

She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

Stories, Spirit, Ridiculous

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

Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.

Eye, Expression, Feelings

Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.233, BookBaby

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

Girl, Men, Mrs Bennet

Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.9, Lulu.com

Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.

Inspirational, May, Hours

"Mansfield Park".

You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

Believe, Ambition, Greatness

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.25, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.

Men, Killing, Stage

All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.

Eye, World

"Fictional character: Elizabeth Bennet". "Pride & Prejudice", www.imdb.com. 2005.

Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror, with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor.

Imagination, Inspire, Lovely

Jane Austen (2016). “Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time." "Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

Mother, Believe, Night

Jane Austen (2015). “Annotated Pride and Prejudice with English Grammar Exercises: by Jane Austen (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.329, Powell Publications, LLC

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

Son, Years, Hopeless

Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.182, BookCaps Study Guides

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