Quotes about austen, page 12
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
quote by Jane Austen
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Jane Austen in Mansfield Park
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Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
quote by Jane Austen
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
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Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.
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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.
Jane Austen in Mansfield Park
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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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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
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Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
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