Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Quote by Jane Austen
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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Jane Austen Quotes
- I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
- Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
- Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
- But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.
- Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
- Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
- Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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