Jane Austen: Doing

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

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“I do not cough for my own amusement.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Those who do not complain are never pitied.”

Jane Austen

“I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice