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Jane Austen Citations
“La sagesse est préférable à l'esprit, et sur le long terme, c'est elle qui aura le dernier mot.”
Du fond de mon coeur, lettres à ses nièces
“Les gens sont prompts à emprunter ou à faire des éloges qu'à acheter, ce qui ne me surprend pas.”
Du fond de mon coeur, lettres à ses nièces
Variante: Les gens sont plus prompts à emprunter ou à faire des éloges qu'à acheter, ce qui ne me surprend pas.
Du fond de mon coeur, lettres à ses nièces
“Tout est préférable, tout peut être enduré plutôt qu'un mariage sans affection.”
Du fond de mon coeur, lettres à ses nièces
Jane Austen: Citations en anglais
“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
Variante: 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

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Angry people are not always wise.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Letter (1811-05-31) referring to the Peninsular War [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
Letter to Cassandra (1798-12-24) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
Source: Jane Austen's Letters
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope… I have loved none but you.”
Variante: You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
Source: Persuasion
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?”
Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Variante: Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
Dinner was soon followed by tea and coffee, a ten miles' drive home allowed no waste of hours; and from the time of their sitting down to table, it was a quick succession of busy nothings till the carriage came to the door, and Mrs. Norris, having fidgeted about, and obtained a few pheasants' eggs and a cream cheese from the housekeeper, and made abundance of civil speeches to Mrs. Rushworth, was ready to lead the way.
Misattributed
Source: Said by Fanny Price in a 1999 adaptation of Mansfield Park. Actual quote:
“Till this moment I never knew myself.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”
Source: Persuasion
“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
-Mr. Darcy”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
Source: Emma (1815)
“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
Variante: You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice