Jane Austen’s Life Changing Quotes | Quotes About Life

vanity and pride in different things though the words are often used synonymously the more i know of the world the more i'm convinced that i shall never see a man whom i can really love i require so much i hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures none of us want to be in calm waters all our lives the person be a gentleman or lady who has not pleasure in a good novel must be in terribly stupid it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife a lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love from love to matrimony in the moment there is nothing i would not do for those who are really my friends i have no notion of loving people by halves it is not my nature in vain have i struggled it will not do my feelings will not be repressed you must allow me to tell you how ugly i admire and love you i cannot fix on the hour or the spot or the look of the words which laid the foundation it was too long ago i was in the middle before i knew that i had begun there are few people whom i really loved and still fewer of whom i think well i declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading how much sooner one tires of anything than of a book when i have a house of my own i shall be miserable if i have not an excellent library angry people are not always wise a person may be proud without being vain pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves vanity to what we would have others think of us i do not want people to be very agreeable as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal you pierce my soul i am half agony half hope i have loved none but you there's a stubbornness about me that never came here to be frightened at the will of others my courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me the more i see of the world the more am i dissatisfied with it and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of marriage or sense i could easily forgive his pride if he had not mortified mine what are men to rocks and mountains ah there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort i have not the pleasure of understanding you give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world and tend to one but she as the means of settling well without further expense to anybody for what do we live or to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn till this moment i never knew myself he is a gentleman and i am a gentleman's daughter so far we are equal nothing ever fatigues me but doing what i do not like all izzy do anything rather than marry without affection it is not time or opportunity that is too determined intimacy it is disposition alone seven years will be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other and seven days are more than enough for others there are people who the more you do for them the less they will do for themselves which of all my important nothings shall i tell you first without music life would be a blank to me let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter follies and nonsense whims and inconsistencies do divert me i own it and i laugh at them whenever i can to wish was to hope and to hope was to expect they walked on without knowing in what direction there was too much to be thought and felt and set for attention to any other objects a large income is the best recipe for happiness i ever heard of indeed i am very sorry to be right in this instance i would much rather have been married than once we do not suffer by accident do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace every moment has its pleasures and its hope to sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon vedger is the most perfect refreshment what do you know of my heart what do you know of anything but your own suffering she was hardly ashamed of her ignorance a misplaced shame where people wish to attach they should always be ignorant but indeed i would rather have nothing but tea business you know may bring money but friendship hardly ever does i could not be happy with a man who's tasted not in every point coincide with my own he must enter in all my feelings the same books the same music must charm us both there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions [Music] nobody who has not been in the interior of a family can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be i have no talent for certainty i must learn to be content with being happier than i deserve the very first moment i beheld him my heart was irrevocably gone friendship is certainly the finest bomb for the pangs of disappointed love if i loved you less i might be able to talk about it more my affection and wishes aren't changed but one word from you will silence me on this subject forever i may have lost my heart but not my self-control i am the happiest creature in the world perhaps other people have said so before but not one with such justice i am happier ever than jane she only smiles i laugh when i fall in love it will be forever to be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love my idea of good company is the company of clever well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what i call good company we all know him to be a proud unpleasant sort of man but this will be nothing if you really liked him if i could but know his heart everything will become easy her heart did whisper that he had done it for her there could have been no two hearts so open no taste so similar no feelings so in unison know your own happiness you want nothing with patience or give it a more fascinating name call it hope one half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other [Music] you must be the best judge of your own happiness i come here with no expectations only to profess now that i am at liberty to do so that my heart is and always will be yours had i been in love i could not have been more wretchedly blind but vanity not love has been my folly [Music] a man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman the off not it does not there is no charm equal to tenderness of heart i am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony so i shall end an old maid and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instrument very ill where i to fall in love indeed it will 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 to not be in a hurry the right man will come at last she was one of those who having once begun would always be in love beware how you give your heart there are as many forms of love as there are moments in time we live at home quiet confined and our feelings prey upon us 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