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“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

“Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"

"For the liveliness of your mind, I did.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing; but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“She was stronger alone…”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“One word from you shall silence me forever.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice