A collection of quotes collected from the books of Jane Austen.
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane AustenSource: Pride and Prejudice
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane AustenSource: Mansfield Park
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane AustenAngry people are not always wise.
Jane AustenSource: Pride and Prejudice
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane AustenHappiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane AustenSource: Pride and Prejudice
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
Jane AustenI declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane AustenSource: Pride and Prejudice
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane AustenSource: Letter to Cassandra (1798-12-24) - Letters of Jane Austen
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
Jane AustenSource: Persuasion
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Jane AustenI wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!
Jane AustenSource: Pride and Prejudice
If a book is well written, I always find it too short.
Jane AustenIf adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
Jane AustenSource: Northanger Abbey
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Jane AustenSource: Emma
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Jane AustenSource: Pride And Prejudice
Quoted: Mr. Darcy
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane AustenIt is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
Jane AustenSource: Emma (1815)
It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
Jane AustenSource: Sense and Sensibility
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane AustenNothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.
Jane AustenOne half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane AustenSelfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane AustenSometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
Jane AustenSurprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane AustenThe more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
Jane AustenSource: Sense and Sensibility
The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
Jane AustenSource: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane AustenSource: Northanger Abbey
There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
Jane AustenThere is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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