She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
JANE AUSTENWithout music, life would be a blank to me.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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I must have my share in the conversation.
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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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An annuity is a very serious business.
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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
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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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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.
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