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“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park (1814)
Works, Mansfield Park

“To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.”

Jane Austen

Source: Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

“But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“Obstinate, headstrong girl!”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.”

Jane Austen

Source: Northanger Abbey: a play in two acts, based upon the novel

“Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these."
- Mr. Darcy”

Jane Austen

Source: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Persuasion

“It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma