100+ Jane Austen Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Each found her greatest safety in silence.
JANE AUSTEN

Finding Greatness One Liner Safety Silence
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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Content Deserve Happiness Learning
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
JANE AUSTEN

Air Born Deep Flower Fragnance Waste
He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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Daughter Equality Father Gentleman
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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Cure Forgiveness Hope Selfish
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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Head Mischief Produce Vanity Weakness Work
One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
JANE AUSTEN

Be Yourself Goodness Inspirational Man Positive Self Love
Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
JANE AUSTEN

Fascinate Happiness Hope Inspirational Patience
The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
JANE AUSTEN

Couple Distance Friendship Love Motive One Liner
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
JANE AUSTEN

Charm Equality Heart Inspirational Life One Liner
Success supposes endeavour.
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Endeavour One Liner Success Suppose
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
JANE AUSTEN

Confess Herself Hope Reason She Wise
You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.
JANE AUSTEN

Angel Couple Human Love Quality Valentine
I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
JANE AUSTEN

Pleasure Understand
I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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Attitude Break Up Healing Heart Lost Self Control
How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
JANE AUSTEN

Change Human Mind Operation Time Wonderful
But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
JANE AUSTEN

Alter Change Inspirational Observe People
When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN

Healing Over Pain Pleasure Remember
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
JANE AUSTEN

Done Inspirational One Liner Patience Right
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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Fortune Husband Man Marriage Truth Wife
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.
JANE AUSTEN

Admire Couple Feeling Love Struggle Valentine
Let us have the luxury of silence.
JANE AUSTEN

Luxury One Liner Silence
A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
JANE AUSTEN

Action Book Reveal Show Source True
I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.
JANE AUSTEN

Habit Humour Writing
My heart is, and always will be, yours.
JANE AUSTEN

Couple Forever Heart Love Valentine
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.
JANE AUSTEN

Character Friendship Love People
But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN

Book Finding Reading Writing

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