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.
JANE AUSTENEvery moment had its pleasure and its hope.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
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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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An annuity is a very serious business.
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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present.
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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
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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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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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