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“to hope was to expect”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Variant: To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
Source: Sense and Sensibility

“I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.”

Jane Austen

“I walk: I prefer walking.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“I will only add, God bless you.”

Jane Austen

“I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. And wish from this day forth never to be parted from you.”

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“Fanny! You are killing me!"
"No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Variant: Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Source: Northanger Abbey

“Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.”

Jane Austen

“Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be…”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park (1814)