Jane Austen Quotes

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
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Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply…
– Jane Austen

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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
– Jane Austen

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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.
– Jane Austen

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She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.
– Jane Austen

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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
– Jane Austen

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There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.
– Jane Austen

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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
– Jane Austen

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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
– Jane Austen

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Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
– Jane Austen

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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
– Jane Austen

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The less said the better.
– Jane Austen

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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
– Jane Austen

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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
– Jane Austen

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A Women’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
– Jane Austen

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Angry people are not always wise.
– Jane Austen

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Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
– Jane Austen

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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
– Jane Austen

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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
– Jane Austen

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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
– Jane Austen

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A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
– Jane Austen

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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.

– Jane Austen

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We do not suffer by accident.
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