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Jane Austen Quotes

«Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.»
«He [Darcy] expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man in violent love can be supposed to.»
«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.»
Author: Jane Austen (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: clergy, The Nation
«How can you contrive to write so even?»
«It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.»
Author: Jane Austen (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: decides
«A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.»
«Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.»
«His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.»
«The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope»
«. . . she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them.»
Author: Jane Austen (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: rank

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