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Jane Austen ( Author of Emma )

A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her. (Emma quotes jane austen)

Jane austen

A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.

Jane austen

Absence with the conviction probably of her indifference, had produced this very natural and desirable effect.

Jane austen

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

Jane austen

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Jane austen
emma quotes jane austen

Do not deceive yourself; do not be run away with by gratitude and compassion.

Jane austen

Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill’d them all in high and mighty claims.

Jane austen

Evil to some is always good to others.

Jane austen

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

Jane austen

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste it’s fragrance on the desert air.

Jane austen

I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

Jane austen

I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

Jane austen

If a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,’ she ought to say `No’ directly. It’s not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

Jane austen
emma quotes jane austen

Not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best

Jane austen

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

Jane austen

It was foolish, was wrong, to take so active a part in bringing any two people together. (Emma quotes jane austen)

Jane austen

It’s such a happiness when good people get together

Jane austen

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

Jane austen

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Jane austen

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other

Jane austen

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

Jane austen
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She was one of those who having once begun would be always in love.

Jane austen

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way

Jane austen

Success supposes endeavour.

Jane austen

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. (Emma quotes jane austen)

Jane austen

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

Jane austen

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Jane austen

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

Jane austen

Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing; but I have never been in love ; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.

Jane austen
emma quotes jane austen

Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found.

Jane austen

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

Jane austen

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Jane austen

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