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I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. Jane AustenTo sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. Jane Austen Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? Jane AustenOne half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Jane Austen, EmmaSilly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Jane Austen, EmmaA large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park 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. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park 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. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park 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. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere. Jane Austen, Mansfield ParkWe have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. Jane Austen, Mansfield ParkWhere any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else. Jane Austen, Mansfield ParkBut when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1818 For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn? Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1811Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1811How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1811I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1811 I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1811Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1811No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1811Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1811It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, first line
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