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“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Variant: I am very strong. Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
Source: Mansfield Park

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“What strange creatures brothers are!”

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“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”

Jane Austen book Love and Freindship

Source: Love and Friendship

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey (1817)
Works, Northanger Abbey

“She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.”

Jane Austen

Source: Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

“Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?”

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“She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.”

Jane Austen

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma (1815)

“I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice