| 30 Famous Quotes by Jane Austen
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“In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.”
Affection Quotes |
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“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before”
Beauty Quotes |
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“Well! Evil to some is always good to others.”
Diversity Quotes |
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“There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to”
Faults Quotes |
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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”
Fortune Quotes |
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“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your habits, for they become character.Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
Habit Quotes |
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“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
Income Quotes |
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“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”
Principles Quotes |
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“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”
Self-awareness Quotes |
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“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”
Selfishness Quotes |
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“It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.”
Single women Quotes |
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“Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.”
Surprises Quotes |
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“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.”
Vanity Quotes |
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“One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”
Abuse Quotes |
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“It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.”
Advice Quotes |
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“In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.”
Affection Quotes |
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“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
Gossip Quotes |
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“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
Neighbors Quotes |
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“I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.”
Vanity Quotes |
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“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
Nature Quotes |
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“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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Jane Austen Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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