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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  • Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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  • Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
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  • Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
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  • Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable.
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  • The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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  • The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
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  • The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it.
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  • The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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  • The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart.
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  • There are as many sorts of love, as there are moments in time.
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  • There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
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  • There are secrets in all families.
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  • There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
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  • Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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  • Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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  • To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
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  • To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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  • We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
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  • We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
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  • What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
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