Jane Austen: Likeness

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”

“Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”

“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”

“A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of”

“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”

“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.”

“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”

“She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.”

“I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?”

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

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

“I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like”

“Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.”

“Next to being married, a girl likes being crossed in love a little now and again.”

“That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.”

“She attracted him more than he liked.”

“When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.”