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“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Variant: But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.
Source: Persuasion

“Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Emma (1815)
Works, Emma

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Persuasion (1817)
Works, Persuasion
Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”

Jane Austen

“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. 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

“My idea of good company… is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice