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Quotes by JANE AUSTEN - from Letters

Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend. Letter (1798-10-27)

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance. Letter (1796-09-18)

Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted. Letter (August 1796) upon arriving in London

You will have a great deal of unreserved discourse with Mrs. K., I dare say, upon this subject, as well as upon many other of our family matters. Abuse everybody but me. Letter (1807-01-07)

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. Letter to her sister Cassandra (1798-12-24)

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve. Letter to her sister Cassandra (1798-12-24)

I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it. Letter (1799-01-21)

Besides, I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit. Letter to Cassandra (1799-06-11), on decorating her hat

In Paragon we met Mrs Foley & Mrs Dowdeswell with her yellow shawl airing out—& at the bottom of Kinsdown Hill we met a Gentleman in a Buggy, who on minute examination turned out to be Dr Hall—& Dr Hall in such very deep mourning that either his Mother, his Wife, or himself must be dead. Letter (1799-06-17)

We have been exceedingly busy ever since you went away. In the first place we have had to rejoice two or three times everyday at your having such very delightful weather for the whole of your journey... Letter (1800-11-25)

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One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. ~ Mansfield Park

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth. Letter (1801-01-03)

I begin already to weigh my words & sentences more than I did, & am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming. Letter (1809-01-24)

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them! Letter (1811-05-31), referring to the Peninsular War

I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive. Letter (1811-05-31)

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life; and if it were indispensable for me to keep it up and never relax into laughing at myself or at other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. Letter to Mr. Clarke, librarian to the Prince Regent (1816-04-01)

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour. Letter to J. Edward Austen (1816-12-16)

Single Women have a dreadful propensity for being poor—which is one very strong argument in favour of Matrimony... Letter (1817-03-13)

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