88 Quotations by Jane Austen
- 41. It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, s ...

- 42. Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

- 43. Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.

- 44. Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

- 45. Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

- 46. Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who ...

- 47. Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

- 48. Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown.

- 49. Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated t ...

- 50. One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

- 51. One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fa ...

- 52. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, noth ...

- 53. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, noth ...

- 54. One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.

- 55. One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

- 56. Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that s ...

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

- 58. Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o ...

- 59. Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerab ...

- 60. That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.

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