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“Money is the best recipe for happiness.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Mansfield Park (1814)
Works, Mansfiled Park
Variant: A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Source: Pride and Prejudice

“I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“When so many hours have been spent convincing myself I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Variant: Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Source: Sense and Sensibility

“I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“My dear Alicia, of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a man of his age! Just old enough to be formal, ungovernable, and to have the gout; too old to be agreeable, too young to die.”

Jane Austen book Lady Susan

Source: Lady Susan

“Sitting with her on Sunday evening — a wet Sunday evening — the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told…”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“Sense will always have attractions for me.”

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“It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“I must have my share in the conversation…”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice