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Memorable Quotes and quotations
from Jane Austen
Jane Austen
English novelist (1775 - 1817)
Jane Austen - Northanger
Abbey
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But
when
a
young
lady
is
to
be
a
heroine,
the
perverseness
of
forty
surrounding families
cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen
to
throw a hero in her way.
Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
- Friendship is certainly the finest
balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen - Mansfield
Park
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Where
any
one
body
of
educated
men,
of
whatever
denomination,
are
condemned
indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of
information, or...of
something else.
Jane Austen - Emma
- Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am
sure I must have been as white as my
gown.
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Austen -
- Where so many
hours have been spent in convincing myself that I
am right, is
there not some reason to
fear I may be wrong?
Jane
Austen - from a letter to her niece, November 18,
1814
- Wisdom is better than wit, and
in the long run will certainly have the laugh on
her side.
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Austen -
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What
dreadful
hot
weather
we
have!
It
keeps
me
in
a
continual
state
of
inelegance.
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Austen -
- One half of the
world can not understand the pleasures of the
other.
Jane Austen -
Mansfield Park
- Everybody likes to go
their own way--to choose their own time and manner
of
devotion.
Jane Austen -
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What
dreadful
weather
we
have!
It
keeps
me
in
a
continual
state
of
inelegance.
Jane
Austen - Emma
- One half of the world
cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen - Mansfield
Park
- There will be little rubs and
disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt
to expect too much; but then, if one
scheme of happiness fails, human nature
turns to another; if the first
calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we
find comfort somewhere.
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
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Nothing
amuses
me
more
than
the
easy
manner
with
which
everybody
settles the
abundance of those who have a great deal less than
themselves.
Jane Austen -
Pride and Prejudice
- It is a truth
universally acknowledged, that a single man in
possession of a
good fortune, must be
in want of a wife.
Jane
Austen - Mansfield Park
- 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.
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We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either
his mother, his wife, or
himself must
be dead.
Jane Austen - Emma
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Human
nature
is
so
well
disposed
towards
those
who
are
in
interesting
situations,
that
a
young
person,
who
either marries
or dies,
is sure
of
being
kindly
spoken of.
Jane Austen -
Emma
- Seldom, very seldom, does
complete truth belong to any human disclosure;
seldom
can
it
happen
that
something
is
not
a
little
disguised,
or
a
little
mistaken.
Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
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mind are displayed, in
which the most thorough knowledge of human nature,
the
happiest
delineation
of
its
varieties,
the
liveliest
effusions
of
wit
and
humour are conveyed to
the world in the best chosen language.
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- To sit in the shade on a
fine day, and look upon verdure is the most
perfect
refreshment.
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
- A large income is the best recipe for
happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
- Life is just a quick succession of
busy nothings.
Jane Austen
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- For what do we live,
but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at
them in
our turn?
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
- We
have
all
a
better guide
in
ourselves,
if
we
would
attend
to
it,
than
any
other person can be.
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
(opening lines)
- It is a truth
universally acknowledged, that a single man in
possession of a
good fortune, must be
in want of a wife. However little known the
feelings or
views of such a man on his
first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so
well
fixed
in
the
minds
of
ths
surrounding
families,
that
he
is
considered
as
the
rightful property of some one or other
of their daughters.
Jane
Austen - Pride and Prejudice
- Think
only of the past as its remembrance gives you
pleasure.
Jane Austen -
Northanger Abbey
- The person, be it
gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good
novel,
must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen - Letter to
Cassandra, 25 November 1798
- An artist
cannot do anything slovenly.
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now
and then stumbling on
something witty.
Jane Austen - Mansfield
Park
- A large income is the best
recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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