Jane Austen: Doing

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“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Variant: It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do...
Source: Sense and Sensibility

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”

Jane Austen

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

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

Jane Austen

Variant: In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will no longer be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Source: Pride And Prejudice

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“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

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

Jane Austen book Love and Freindship

Source: Love and Friendship

“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

“Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be… yours.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“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

“Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“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

“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

“We do not suffer by accident.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice