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“It requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“The one claim I shall make for my own sex is that we love longest, when all hope is gone.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“You have bewitched me body and soul.”

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“I am all astonishment.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“One man's style must not be the rule of another's.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“This is an evening of wonders, indeed!”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park