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1fc5398 A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of Jane Austen
156c449 There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them." hatred education propensity defects retort repartee dislike misunderstanding wit Jane Austen
0fccad4 Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken. relationships honesty truth Jane Austen
325b64f Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her. lizzie pride-and-prejudice Jane Austen
cd8c3d3 There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison love waiting hearts Jane Austen
e4a9321 You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy Jane Austen
1c9a6e4 The distance is nothing when one has a motive. Jane Austen
5c6ebba I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I .. stereotypes opportunities men feminism women education love constancy clichés social-norms misogyny double-standards inequality gender Jane Austen
8644831 I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it. Jane Austen
21ae4b4 Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope. self-actualization Jane Austen
445f8f3 I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit. Unfortunately an only son (for many years an only child), I was spoilt by my parents, who, though good themselves (my father, particularly, all that was benevolent and amiable), allowed, encouraged, almost t.. Jane Austen
3dd6e9c I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way. Jane Austen
3c1114e Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint! Jane Austen
d2d92df Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection. integrity marriage feelings self-determination romance joy love matrimony duty Jane Austen
d172f25 Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how. stupidity intelligence sense Jane Austen
bb0ebf6 Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. irony suffering histrionics mrs-bennett hysterics Jane Austen
b32b1ca There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. Jane Austen
d3f5c8c It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;--it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. time opportunity marianne-dashwood openness self-disclosure intimacy Jane Austen
89b67cc She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. women Jane Austen
9a96817 One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. life Jane Austen
1e7d0ce I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done." sociability social-anxiety Jane Austen
edb36ec She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. love mr-darcy Jane Austen
cd8da1b It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves. Jane Austen
6d2a8db How quick come the reasons for approving what we like. Jane Austen
4e04d0d It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. romance friendship Jane Austen
133041e It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable. Jane Austen
5e6b764 All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone! Jane Austen
5880c1e Without music, life would be a blank to me. music Jane Austen
4b5f701 Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. Jane Austen
9b8a1b1 when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. pain memory pleasure Jane Austen
9f5bc08 Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. romance love refusal folly blindness denial vanity Jane Austen
62372fd One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. Jane Austen
b62f603 I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours. love pronouncements-of-love Jane Austen
e2a8109 I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me. Jane Austen
5c2cc2d I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. serenity Jane Austen
acb3f39 You must be the best judge of your own happiness. Jane Austen
dcd7e10 A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not. Jane Austen
da73bd3 But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever. Jane Austen
4065e8d Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley's attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far from suspecting that she was herself becoming an object of some interest in the eyes of his friend. Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty: he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise. But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feat.. Jane Austen
7e6ebde I am excessively diverted. Jane Austen
2331b46 I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. [...] Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy. Jane Austen
9673fde She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet. self-awareness self-improvement Jane Austen
93ef1c5 I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. humor intelligibility expression sarcasm Jane Austen
c218103 If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad. Jane Austen
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