Quotes by Jane Austen

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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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

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You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

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The sooner every party breaks up, the better.

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Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and, however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

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What are men to rocks and mountains?

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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

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