Jane Austen, Emma
"It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,’ said he. ‘Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.’‘Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater."
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"It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,’ said he. ‘Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.’‘Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater."
Jane Austen, Emma
"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, Emma
"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, Emma
"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, Emma
"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, Emma
"Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give."
Jane Austen, Emma
"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, Emma
"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, Emma
"... 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, Emma
"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, Emma
"The I examined my own heart. And there you were. Never, I fear, to be removed."
Jane Austen, Emma
"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, Emma
"Respect for right conduct is felt by every body."
Jane Austen, Emma
"We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to."
Jane Austen, Emma
"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, Emma
"I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment"
Jane Austen, Emma
"It was impossible to quarrel with words, whose tremulous inequality showed indisposition so plainly."
Jane Austen, Emma
"She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding."
Jane Austen, Emma
"Well, evil to some is always good to others."
Jane Austen, Emma
"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, Emma
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