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Jane Austen
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently...
“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling we...
“I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and prove...
“...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”
“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
“Time will explain.”
“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; th...
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is...
“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”
“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient...
“Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?”
“It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man i...
“She was stronger alone…”
“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When ...
“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was i...
“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best...
“Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”
“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”
“Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”
“You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it ...
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. H...
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
“Angry people are not always wise.”
“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am ...
“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a l...
“A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”
“To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect”
“She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignor...
