QUOTES by Jane Austen
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Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
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Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing; but I have never been in love ; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.
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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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They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.
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Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
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Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.
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Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
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Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
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Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.
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She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
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But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
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I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.
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Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
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I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.
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A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.
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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!
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She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
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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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