Jane Austen: Likeness

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“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

“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.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

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

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

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

Jane Austen book Emma

Emma (1815)
Works, Emma

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

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

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

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

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

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

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

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“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?”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

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

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“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

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

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

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

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

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

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“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.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“She attracted him more than he liked.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“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.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion