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“for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“Let us have the luxury of silence.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Variant: Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
Source: Pride and Prejudice

“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.”

Letter (1796-09-18) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

“I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“… why did we wait for any thing? — why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma (1815)

“Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness."

-Edward Ferrars”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.”

“I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.”

“We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice