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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?


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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
JANE AUSTEN ...we steal with our eyes closed to the conditions in which the poor, who make our affluence possibl...
KAREN BAKER-FLETCHER Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to...
SAMUEL BUTLER If I tried to make money for a Jane Austen movie, I'd get laughed out of the office.
GEORGE A. ROMERO We casually laugh at things, but we do not realize how much a laugh contributes. We turn a blind eye...
LASHAN DIA GRAY 'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our l...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH We can make up for our actions. But for our inactions, what we fail to do ...
JAMES SALLIS What we must not do - what we must never do - is turn on our neighbors, our family members, our fell...
LORETTA LYNCH I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses...
EDWARD BOND We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN We should all laugh more at our elected officials - it's good for us and good for them.
MOLLY IVINS Do we work for and pay for all this convenience in order to live our lives, or do we live our lives ...
COLIN BEAVAN I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
MAGGIE GRACE We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

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This chat will be in the...
DEYTH BANGER Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordia...
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH You may laugh at people for what they do, but never laugh at what they are.
VIKRANT PARSAI We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are sho...
C.S. LEWIS A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport...
YOSHIRO MORI Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
DODIE SMITH Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to...
CRAIG GROESCHEL What they do in the big-business world is fine, but there's room for indies [independent registrars]...
BOB ALLISAT Remember!--It is Christianity to do good always--even to those who do evil to us. It is Christianity...
CHARLES DICKENS People who say Jane or talk about Janeites revolt me. The sort that can walk with kings and not lose...
ANGELA THIRKELL We desire to live a heathy life cause we only have one to live, and what we do to our bodies we do i...
MATTHEW WAYNE GAULIN What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brother...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brother...
BOOKER WASHINGTON I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus spari...
CATHLEEN SCHINE We're willing to make difficult and hard decisions and compromises to live in peace with our nei...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen i...
ANNE STEVENSON All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dream...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
J. K. ROWLING We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ...
SAINT BERNARD Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let ...
WILLIAM PENNINGTON Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
JANE AUSTEN ... love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies.
E.A. BUCCHIANERI In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama
HARPER LEE The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of ...
JANE AUSTEN I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old mai...
JANE AUSTEN And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has
been many a one, I fancy, o...
JANE AUSTEN Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE No one else “makes” us do anything. They can’t make us nag them, or make us angry, or make us ...
CATHY BURNHAM MARTIN Our age is so resolutely unheroic, and the employment opportunities for registered demigods are now ...
ANTHONY LANE I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH Enjoying life does not mean we have to live our dreams and do what we wish, but we have to make othe...
ANUJ SOMANY What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is ...
THEODOR HERZL We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?
POUL ANDERSON Thank you for annoying neighbours, for they allow us to practise our ability to love.
JANET TURPIN MYERS I think that if we play our style and do what we have to do and make them play our game, we'll be OK...
ALEX VILLALOBOS Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"

"For the liveliness of your mind,...
JANE AUSTEN Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summari...
TRACY CHEVALIER You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and...
JANE AUSTEN Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of orig...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Our main objective was to keep the folks in the county comfortable. We knew we couldn't make things ...
GARY GALLOWAY Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do,...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Like Wollstonecraft, Austen rejects the notion that ‘man was made to reason, woman to feel.’ Per...
EMILY AUERBACH I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane ...
GILLIAN FLYNN Here's what I've learned about "soon"; it's short for "someday." We make space in our lives for what...
STEPHANIE KLEIN Rules for Self Discovery:
1. What we want most;
2. What we think about most;
3. How w...
A.W. TOZER God can turn everything that seems negative in our life around and make it positive, for our good
SUNDAY ADELAJA We're in a fight for our principles and our first responsibility is to live by them.
GEORGE W. BUSH No...We wouldn't all do what we did do then...but to live in the moment makes our hindsight grin!
DARRELL CHESTER During this difficult time, we are offering our support to our friends and neighbours,
ANNE MCLELLAN We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on l...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY Since we do charge for our work, we do need the permit and licenses, but do it not so much for incom...
BOB SOWDERS Hayward Field is hallowed ground in our sport and Eugene's vision for what they can do to connect tr...
CRAIG MASBACK We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands i...
SAMANTHA HARVEY I'm a firm believer you have to be patient in this league. The teams that are patient in trades (hav...
LARRY BIRD God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at lea...
ELIZABETH I Now, when we say we want peace, what we want is really for our Palestinian neighbours to have a demi...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
GEORGE ELIOT Jane has raised the bar for the kinds of equipment we have. We move faster. Our vehicles are kept at...
BILL HOOVER I think we invite people into our living rooms every week through the television because we have emo...
ALEX KURTZMAN We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us.
F.W. BOREHAM The state exists at our expense, and we do not live at the expense of the state. For this reason we ...
ILKIN SANTAK I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will atte...
VAL MCDERMID I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.
SUSANNA CLARKE We know Glenwood has good kids. They've had good kids for a long time. We just tried to make our adj...
DAMON WELLS You are our great sporting heroes, you're legends of sport in our time, we owe you an incredible deb...
GORDON BROWN We do rotate people in a lot, but everybody knows how hard they have to play. That is an advantage w...
EMILY WESTERBERG The rich see the opportunity to make money work for them while the poor laugh at them
SUNDAY ADELAJA Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emoti...
MARY PICKFORD Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emoti...
MARY PICKFORD I am thrilled for them listening to our concern. It's what we wanted from them. We just want to live...
MARIA GARCIA It may take us years and years to find our true calling in our life. But one fine day, we eventually...
AVIJEET DAS I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
J. K. ROWLING My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
JOYCE CAROL OATES A friend once taught me that we'd all live differently if we could live our lives over, but all we c...
TONI SORENSON I think undergraduate signings are a disgrace. Kids don't belong in the sport. They're not emotional...
ART MODELL She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that she thought it was the mis...
JANE AUSTEN Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
JANE AUSTEN Did you think of anything when Miss Marcy said Scoatney Hall was being re-opened? I thought of the b...
DODIE SMITH Quite definitely a Bingley
LAUREN WILLIG We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.
MIKE CAREY

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Every savage can dance.
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JANE AUSTEN A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
JANE AUSTEN If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
JANE AUSTEN One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
JANE AUSTEN My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conv...
JANE AUSTEN The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupi...
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JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be...
JANE AUSTEN Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
JANE AUSTEN To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
JANE AUSTEN Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
JANE AUSTEN I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, wi...
JANE AUSTEN I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses...
JANE AUSTEN What strange creatures brothers are!
JANE AUSTEN ...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN [I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN Angry people are not always wise.
JANE AUSTEN I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But...
JANE AUSTEN The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civ...
JANE AUSTEN Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk ...
JANE AUSTEN A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a mo...
JANE AUSTEN I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than ...
JANE AUSTEN Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
JANE AUSTEN Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was neces...
JANE AUSTEN I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.

"Of a fine, stout, ...
JANE AUSTEN Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my f...
JANE AUSTEN We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked...
JANE AUSTEN There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison
JANE AUSTEN I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
JANE AUSTEN To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
JANE AUSTEN There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour...
JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...
JANE AUSTEN Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
JANE AUSTEN I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is to...
JANE AUSTEN There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic...
JANE AUSTEN We are all fools in love
JANE AUSTEN ....how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her ...
JANE AUSTEN What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I p...
JANE AUSTEN Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals cor...
JANE AUSTEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has f...
JANE AUSTEN I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
JANE AUSTEN If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault.
JANE AUSTEN I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.
JANE AUSTEN I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif...
JANE AUSTEN To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at la...
JANE AUSTEN Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
JANE AUSTEN The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really...
JANE AUSTEN In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to te...
JANE AUSTEN There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving peop...
JANE AUSTEN To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plai...
JANE AUSTEN Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last ...
JANE AUSTEN ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
JANE AUSTEN Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
JANE AUSTEN A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
JANE AUSTEN Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
JANE AUSTEN From politics it was an easy step to silence.
JANE AUSTEN There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
JANE AUSTEN Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerab...
JANE AUSTEN One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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JANE AUSTEN One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
JANE AUSTEN One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, noth...
JANE AUSTEN Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
JANE AUSTEN I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o...
JANE AUSTEN What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
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JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be...
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JANE AUSTEN Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion,...
JANE AUSTEN Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish prepara...
JANE AUSTEN Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
JANE AUSTEN Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
JANE AUSTEN To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
JANE AUSTEN It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing...
JANE AUSTEN A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as sh...
JANE AUSTEN . . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether...
JANE AUSTEN Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young perso...
JANE AUSTEN You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have hear...
JANE AUSTEN We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
JANE AUSTEN One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
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JANE AUSTEN It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years ...
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JANE AUSTEN I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by ...
JANE AUSTEN My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
JANE AUSTEN If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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JANE AUSTEN It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
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JANE AUSTEN Well! Evil to some is always good to others.
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JANE AUSTEN There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to
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JANE AUSTEN I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstan...
JANE AUSTEN I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It...
JANE AUSTEN What are men to rocks and mountains?
JANE AUSTEN Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your acti...
JANE AUSTEN One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at...
JANE AUSTEN It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before
JANE AUSTEN Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.
JANE AUSTEN In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the se...
JANE AUSTEN There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
JANE AUSTEN We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our me...
JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead o...
JANE AUSTEN When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to...
JANE AUSTEN The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwel...
JANE AUSTEN Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always ...
JANE AUSTEN I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few d...
JANE AUSTEN It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be...
JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i...
JANE AUSTEN An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
JANE AUSTEN She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they sho...
JANE AUSTEN One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fa...
JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taug...
JANE AUSTEN The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
JANE AUSTEN Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
JANE AUSTEN A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of
JANE AUSTEN My good opinion once lost is lost forever.
JANE AUSTEN Till this moment I never knew myself.
JANE AUSTEN He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.
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JANE AUSTEN From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, y...
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JANE AUSTEN You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell m...
JANE AUSTEN I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with ...
JANE AUSTEN I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
JANE AUSTEN I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
JANE AUSTEN There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the...
JANE AUSTEN Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste it's fragrance on the desert air.
JANE AUSTEN Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one...
JANE AUSTEN It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and ...
JANE AUSTEN An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her care...
JANE AUSTEN I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
JANE AUSTEN There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give ...
JANE AUSTEN To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for t...
JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i...
JANE AUSTEN There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
JANE AUSTEN Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that s...
JANE AUSTEN Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the m...
JANE AUSTEN A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in ...
JANE AUSTEN The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really...
JANE AUSTEN What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
JANE AUSTEN There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
JANE AUSTEN There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
JANE AUSTEN Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
JANE AUSTEN A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sp...
JANE AUSTEN The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without...
JANE AUSTEN It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little t...
JANE AUSTEN She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she wa...
JANE AUSTEN Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo...
JANE AUSTEN There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got al...
JANE AUSTEN Beware how you give your heart.
JANE AUSTEN My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great ...
JANE AUSTEN Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affect...
JANE AUSTEN You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any oth...
JANE AUSTEN Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occas...
JANE AUSTEN Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say...
JANE AUSTEN The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o...
JANE AUSTEN We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
JANE AUSTEN It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these...
JANE AUSTEN How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
JANE AUSTEN Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
JANE AUSTEN General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
JANE AUSTEN You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
JANE AUSTEN Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circums...
JANE AUSTEN Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
JANE AUSTEN It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
JANE AUSTEN I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
JANE AUSTEN My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and ...
JANE AUSTEN One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it
JANE AUSTEN But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not ...
JANE AUSTEN Aunque me dieras cuarenta hombres como él, nunca sería tan feliz como tú. Mientras no posea tu bu...
JANE AUSTEN It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well eno...
JANE AUSTEN You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.
JANE AUSTEN It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in...
JANE AUSTEN My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so m...
JANE AUSTEN Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
JANE AUSTEN They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
JANE AUSTEN She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most ...
JANE AUSTEN She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should ...
JANE AUSTEN Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I ...
JANE AUSTEN I am excessively diverted.
JANE AUSTEN Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessn...
JANE AUSTEN Every thing nourishes what is strong already.
JANE AUSTEN