{"id":1164,"date":"2013-09-10T09:14:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T09:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2013-09-10T09:14:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T09:14:53","slug":"jane-austen-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=1164","title":{"rendered":"Jane Austen quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Quotation<\/a>Austen, Jane (1775 – 1817) English novelist
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\nWe have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.<\/i><\/p>\n

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue? (Pride and Prejudice, 1811)<\/i><\/p>\n

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. (Pride and Prejudice, 1811)<\/i><\/p>\n

Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex. (Pride and Prejudice, 1811)<\/i><\/p>\n

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. (Pride and Prejudice, first line)<\/i><\/p>\n

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously…. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. (Pride and Prejudice, 1811)<\/i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Austen, Jane (1775 – 1817) English novelist We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famous-quotations","tag-famous-quotations-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t