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 AUSTENWhat are men to rocks and mountains?
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
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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.
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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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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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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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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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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