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“She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"… when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Beware how you give your heart.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last…”

Jane Austen

Source: Jane Austen's Letters

“I dearly love a laugh… I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen quote: “Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.”

“Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.”

Jane Austen

“No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.”

Jane Austen

“Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Variant: What are men to rocks and mountains?
Source: Pride and Prejudice

“I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“It's such a happiness when good people get together.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Variant: It is such a happiness when good people get together -- and they always do.
Source: Emma

“You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.”

Jane Austen

Letter to Cassandra (1798-12-24) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

“Every savage can dance.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Badly done, Emma!”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked;”

Jane Austen

Letter to Fanny Knight (1816-03-23) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
Context: He and I should not in the least agree, of course, in our ideas of novels and heroines. Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked; but there is some very good sense in what he says, and I particularly respect him for wishing to think well of all young ladies; it shows an amiable and a delicate mind. And he deserves better treatment than to be obliged to read any more of my works.