“You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
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“…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…”
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood”
Source: Sense and Sensibility
Letter to Mr. Clarke, librarian to the Prince Regent (1815-12-11) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
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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.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
“Everything nourishes what is strong already”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Letter to Cassandra (1811-04-18) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
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“She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.”
Source: Sense and Sensibility