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Jane Austen Quotes - Page 30

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He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

Selfish, Men, Cold Hearted

Jane Austen (1811). “Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.7

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

Regret, Littles, Bears

Jane Austen (2005). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.204, Prestwick House Inc

I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.

Believe, Sacrifice, Intelligent

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

Training, Fifteen, Born

Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.2, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

Fate, Merit, Helping

Jane Austen (2015). “Persuasion”, p.273, Jane Austen

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.

Heart, Affectionate

Jane Austen (2011). “Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.114, Penguin

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

Accomplishment, Half, World

Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.409, BookCaps Study Guides

How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!

Impossible, Cases, Hard

Jane Austen (2015). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.341, Sheba Blake Publishing

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

Doors, Broken, Promise

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

Opposites, Long, People

Jane Austen (2008). “Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels)”, p.198, Mondial

It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

Beautiful, Believe, Pride

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.327

To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

Teacher, School, Men

Jane Austen (2016). “Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen”, p.203, Pan Macmillan

Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

Hate, Men, Evil

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.80

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

Giving, Feelings, Receiving

Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.422

When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.

Perseverance, Two, People

Jane Austen, Robert Morrison (2011). “Persuasion: An Annotated Edition”, p.300, Harvard University Press

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

Integrity, Men, Principles

Jane Austen (2016). “Emma”, p.386, Re-Image Publishing

From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.

Girl, Country, Talking

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

I walk: I prefer walking.

Walks, Walking

Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.327, BookCaps Study Guides

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Vanity, Affection, Blind

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.150, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.

Girl, Education, Book

Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again.

Mother, Son, Years

Jane Austen (2008). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.285, Penguin

The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

Thinking, Office, Doe

Jane Austen (2012). “Emma Thrift Study Edition”, p.198, Courier Corporation

She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.

Believe, Long Ago, Should Have

Jane Austen (2011). “Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.46, Penguin

'My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the same force of rapidity and do not possess the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault - because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.' Darcy smiled and said, 'You are perfectly right.'

Moving, Believe, Expression

"Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 31, 1813.

At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.

Eye, Sight, Expression

Jane Austen (1811). “Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.43

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