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“A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion (1817)

“When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“I should infinitely prefer a book…”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Evil to some is always good to others”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive.”

Jane Austen

Letter to Cassandra (1811-05-31) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
Source: Jane Austen's Letters

“The less said the better.”

Jane Austen

“A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“A young woman in love always looks like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Emma (1815)
Works, Emma