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#1

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

51595 likes

#2

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

tags: friends, humor, people

8989 likes

#3

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife

8024 likes

#4

“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, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

20651 likes

#5

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: humor, love, romantic, women

18043 likes

#6

“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, Northanger Abbey

tags: friendship, love

23050 likes

#7

“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, Pride And Prejudice

tags: love, mr-darcy

12376 likes

#8

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: elizabeth-bennet, jane-austen

7910 likes

#9

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
― Jane Austen

2192 likes

#10

“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

1713 likes

#11

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
― Jane Austen

3705 likes

#12

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

2472 likes

#13

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: romantic

5546 likes

#14

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

1009 likes

#15

“What strange creatures brothers are!”
― Jane Austen

tags: brothers, siblings

933 likes

#16

“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”
― Jane Austen, Love and Freindship

tags: advice-for-daily-living

782 likes

#17

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

tags: humor

1315 likes

#18

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

tags: happiness

327 likes

#19

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ”
― Jane Austen

tags: education, women

1771 likes

#20

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: prejudice, pride, vanity

5554 likes

#21

“Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. ”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: mr-knightley

596 likes

#22

“Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

310 likes

#23

“Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!”
― Douglas McGrath

tags: adaptation, emma, movie-quote, mr-knightley

1874 likes

#24

“One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

317 likes

#25

“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

829 likes

#26

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: happiness

3426 likes

#27

“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

249 likes

#28

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

4481 likes

#29

“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: friend, friendship, writers

1348 likes

#30

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
― Willa Cather

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