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“My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“One can never have too large a party.”

Jane Austen

“Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“What could I do! Facts are such horrid things!”

Jane Austen book Lady Susan

Source: "Lady Susan", Letter XXXII (1871)

“You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger security for happiness.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.”

Jane Austen

“A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Catherine […] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.”

Jane Austen book Love and Freindship

Source: Love and Friendship

“My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“I don't approve of surprises. The pleasure is never enhanced and the inconvenience is considerable.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Variant: Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Source: Emma (1815)