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“Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in…. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.”

“Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“She attracted him more than he liked.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“Success supposes endeavour.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Emma

“The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.”
-Elizabeth Bennet”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Those who do not complain are never pitied.”

“I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Persuasion (1817)
Works, Persuasion

“We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.”

“I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.”