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“Angry people are not always wise.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”

Jane Austen

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Variant: It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do...
Source: Sense and Sensibility

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Dinner was soon followed by tea and coffee, a ten miles' drive home allowed no waste of hours; and from the time of their sitting down to table, it was a quick succession of busy nothings till the carriage came to the door, and Mrs. Norris, having fidgeted about, and obtained a few pheasants' eggs and a cream cheese from the housekeeper, and made abundance of civil speeches to Mrs. Rushworth, was ready to lead the way.
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Source: Said by Fanny Price in a 1999 adaptation of Mansfield Park. Actual quote:

Jane Austen quote: “When I fall in love, it will be forever.”

“When I fall in love, it will be forever.”

Jane Austen

Source: Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste it's fragrance on the desert air.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!”

Jane Austen

Letter (1811-05-31) referring to the Peninsular War [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Variant: You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.
And men take care that they should.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma (1815)

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

“A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

-Mr. Darcy”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice