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“You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey (1817)

“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Variant: The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid
Source: "Northanger Abbey" (1817)

“I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“Know your own happiness.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“We do not suffer by accident.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“I was quiet, but I was not blind.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Variant: [I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
Source: Sense and Sensibility

“Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park (1814)
Works, Mansfiled Park
Context: "I shall soon be rested," said Fanny; "to sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment."