Quotes by Jane Austen

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble...

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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible...

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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to...

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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has...

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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a...

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