Quotes by Jane Austen

Jane Austen

Jane Austen

English writer

Lived from: 1775 - 1817

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 16 december 1775 Died: 18 july 1817

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  • Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
    Pride & Prejudice Vol 2, ch. 2
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  • It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man is in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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  • It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
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  • It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
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  • It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
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  • It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
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  • 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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  • Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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  • Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
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  • Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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  • No man dies of love but on the stage
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  • Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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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.
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  • Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
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  • One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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  • One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
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  • One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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  • One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
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  • 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.
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  • Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
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