6 Quotes by Jane Austen about eye

  • Author Jane Austen
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    You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

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  • Author Jane Austen
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    The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.

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  • Author Jane Austen
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    I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.

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    Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.

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  • Author Jane Austen
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    Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.

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