Quotes From "Emma" By Jane Austen

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of...
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Jane Austen
Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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Without music, life would be a blank to me. Jane Austen
There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always...
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There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley Jane Austen
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human...
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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken. Jane Austen
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It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be! - None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life. Jane Austen
My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more...
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My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other? Jane Austen
You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness. Jane Austen
Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often...
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! Jane Austen
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She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy. Jane Austen
How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
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How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! Jane Austen
Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.
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Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic. Jane Austen
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But a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again. Jane Austen
She looked back as well as she could; but it...
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She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it. Jane Austen
Time did not compose her.
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Time did not compose her. Jane Austen
Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not...
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Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle. Jane Austen
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever...
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Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does. Jane Austen
But one never does form a just idea of anybody...
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But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it. Jane Austen
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Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of her drawingup at various times of books that she meant to read regularly through–and very good lists they were–very well chosen, and very neatly arranged–sometimes alphabetically, and sometimes by some other rule. The list she drew up when only fourteen– I remember thinking it did her judgment so much credit, that I preserved it some time; and I dare say she may have made out a very good list now. But I have done with expecting any course of steady reading from Emma. She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding. Jane Austen
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The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage! Jane Austen
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Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior. Jane Austen
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With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his. Jane Austen
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I am not only not going to be married, at present, but have very little intention of ever marrying at all. Jane Austen
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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
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There are secrets in all families, you know. Jane Austen
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Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it. Jane Austen
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What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own. Jane Austen
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What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own. Jane Austen
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Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out- Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims. Jane Austen
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The only source whence any thing like consolation or composure could be drawn, was in the resolution of her own better conduct, and the hope that, however inferior in spirit and gaiety might be the following and every future winter of her life to the past, it would yet find her more rational, more acquainted with herself, and leave her less to regret when it were gone. Jane Austen
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Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now. Jane Austen
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Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all hours, as if ever willing to change his own home for their's! - How was it to be endured? Jane Austen
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You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have a knack of swelling out, till they are quite as unmanageable as great ones. Jane Austen
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Well, evil to some is always good to others. Jane Austen
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She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding. Jane Austen
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It was impossible to quarrel with words, whose tremulous inequality showed indisposition so plainly. Jane Austen
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I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment Jane Austen
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She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she ever would submit to... She was not much deceived as to her own skill either as an artist or a musician, but she was not unwilling to have others deceived, or sorry to know her reputation for accomplishment often higher than it deserved. Jane Austen
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We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to. Jane Austen
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Respect for right conduct is felt by every body. Jane Austen
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Whenever you are transplanted, like me, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with anything at all like what one has left behind. Jane Austen
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The I examined my own heart. And there you were. Never, I fear, to be removed. Jane Austen
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Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. Jane Austen
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... his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it. Jane Austen
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The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad; the more glaring and disgusting any loudness, or coarseness, or awkwardness becomes. What is passable in youth is detestable in later age. Jane Austen
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Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame. Jane Austen
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Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give. Jane Austen
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He may have as strong a sense of what would be right, as you can have, without being so equal under particular circumstances to act up to it."" Then, it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction. Jane Austen
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A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross. Jane Austen
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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. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine. Jane Austen
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She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;–perfect, in being much too short. Jane Austen