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Jane Austen Quotes - Page 5

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Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

Ignorance, Hands, Facts

Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.361, BookCaps Study Guides

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Inspiring, Vanity, Weak

Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Emma. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.21, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

I trust that absolutes have gradations.

Extremes, Absolutes

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

Opinion, Accounts, Mines

Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)”, p.44, Full Moon Publications

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

Noise, Matter, Taste

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.1761, Lulu Press, Inc

But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

Fall, Men, Play

'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 34 (Henry Crawford)

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

Heart, Easy, Knows

Jane Austen (2006). “The Complete Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.242, Penguin

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Dance, Falling In Love, Dancing

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.99, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

Heart, I Love Him, Romantic Love

Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen on Love and Romance”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

Heart, Men, Years

Jane Austen (2015). “Persuasion: World Classics”, p.218, World Classic

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

Heart, Self, May

Jane Austen, Angie Zambrano (2014). “Emma: (Starbooks Classics Editions)”, Createspace Independent Pub

How can you contrive to write so even?

Writing

Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.48, FV Éditions

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Happiness, Wells

Jane Austen (2012). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume 2: Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion”, p.472, Modern Library

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

Inspiring, Mind, Doe

Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.198

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

Believe, I Believe, Ifs

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

Book, Long, Done

Each found her greatest safety in silence.

Safety, Silence, Found

Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.1321, BookBaby

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

Reading, Library, Pride And Prejudice Book

Jane Austen (2016). “Jane Austen The Dover Reader”, p.81, Courier Dover Publications

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

Laughing, Shame

"Fictional character: Elizabeth Bennet". "Pride and Prejudice", 2005.

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

Writing

"Jane Austen's Letters".

I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.

Laughing, World, Darcy

Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.549, Ageless Reads

But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.

Friendship, Happiness, Being Happy

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.28, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

She is loveliness itself.

Women, Loveliness

Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.26, Wild Jot Press

The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.

Beautiful, Country, Thinking

Jane Austen (2010). “Mansfield Park: With an Introduction, Contemporary Opinions, and Contemporary Criticism”, p.212, Ignatius Press

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

Time, Loneliness, Opportunity

Sense and Sensibility vol. 2, ch. 12 (1811)

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