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Jane Austen Quotes - Page 7

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I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.

I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.

Fate, Gowns, Impatient

Jane Austen, Vivien Jones (2004). “Selected Letters”, p.30, Oxford University Press, USA

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

Thinking, Vanity, Female

1815 Letter to Rev James Clarke, quoted in Justin Wintle and Richard Kenin (eds) The Dictionary of Biographical Quotation (1978).

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

Honesty, Heart, Female

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.302, Wordsworth Editions

Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

Agitation, Letters, Moments

Jane Austen (2016). “Persuasion”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.

Numbers, Tables, Five

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Mrs Bennet, Ironic, Prejudice

Jane Austen, Pamela Jane, Deborah Guyol (2015). “Pride and Prejudice and Kitties: A Cat-Lover's Romp through Jane Austen's Classic”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

Inspiring, Men, Lost Friendship

Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1099, Ageless Reads

I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

Sex, Believe, Mean

1818 Persuasion, ch.23.

Time did not compose her.

Jane Austen (2015). “The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works”, p.1410, Wildside Press LLC

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Literature, Opinion, Mansfield Park

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.543, Wordsworth Editions

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

Giving, Sensibility

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

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

Fate, Men, Every Man

Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.231

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Men, Literature, May

Persuasion ch. 13 (1818)

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Inspiring, Nature, Taste

Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.636, Ageless Reads

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Past, Abundance, Settling

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

Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

Father, Praying, Almighty

I must have my share in the conversation.

Share, Conversation

Huw Thomas, Jane Austen (2014). “Exploring Pride and Prejudice (Includes Jane Austen's Original Novel): A Journey through the 1995 TV Series Starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle”, p.103, BookBaby

She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

Thinking, Feelings, Miserable

Jane Austen (1857). “Mansfield park”, p.185

I am all astonishment.

Astonishment

Jane Austen (2005). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.33, Prestwick House Inc

I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

Creatures, Fortunate

"Pride and Prejudice".

A Woman never looks better than on horseback

Horse, Looks, Horseback

Jane Austen (2001). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.93, Broadview Press

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

Heart, Pride, Prejudice

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.179, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Inspiring, Women, Humor

Letter to Cassandra Austen, 24 Dec. 1798

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

Sick, Perfection, Wicked

Letter to Fanny Knight, 23 March 1817, in R. W. Chapman (ed.) 'Jane Austen's Letters' (1952)

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

Action, Wanted, Sensibility

Jane Austen (1811). “Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.187

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