Jane Austen

Quotes by Jane Austen

 

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Jane Austen

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen

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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Jane Austen

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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Paul Gauguin

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I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

T. J. Miller

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Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

James Longstreet

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