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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
By Jane Austen
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
By Jane Austen
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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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.
By Jane Austen
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.
By Jane Austen
On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.
By Jane Austen
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
By Jane Austen
Oh do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
By Jane Austen
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
By Jane Austen
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
By Jane Austen
Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society . . .
By Jane Austen
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
By Jane Austen
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.
By Jane Austen
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
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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.
By Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife.
By Jane Austen
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.
By Jane Austen
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.
By Jane Austen
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient at others, so bewildered and so weak and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control We are, to be sure, a miracle every way but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
By Jane Austen
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
By Jane Austen
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
By Jane Austen