Quotes By Jane Austen

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

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To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

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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?

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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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