She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
JANE AUSTENA lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
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My heart is, and always will be, yours.
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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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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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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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