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“You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“I would much rather have been merry than wise.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.”

Jane Austen

“I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.”

Jane Austen

Letter to Mr. Clarke, librarian to the Prince Regent (1815-12-11) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
Context: I am quite honoured by your thinking me capable of drawing such a clergyman as you gave the sketch of in your note of Nov. 16th. But I assure you I am not. The comic part of the character I might be equal to, but not the good, the enthusiastic, the literary. Such a man's conversation must at times be on subjects of science and philosophy, of which I know nothing; or at least be occasionally abundant in quotations and allusions which a woman who, like me, knows only her own mother-tongue, and has read little in that, would be totally without the power of giving. A classical education, or at any rate a very extensive acquaintance with English literature, ancient and modern, appears to me quite indispensable for the person who would do any justice to your clergyman; and I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

“Everything nourishes what is strong already”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“… I will not allow books to prove any thing."
"But how shall we prove any thing?"
"We never shall.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant, and spending all my money, and, what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.”

Jane Austen

Letter to Cassandra (1811-04-18) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

“Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal…”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility