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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

51604 likes

#2

“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

18046 likes

#3

“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

20647 likes

#4

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

8846 likes

#5

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

3710 likes

#6

“Angry people are not always wise.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom

6225 likes

#7

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: classics

1890 likes

#8

“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

5553 likes

#9

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

1715 likes

#10

“It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

1343 likes

#11

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

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

1874 likes

#12

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

1010 likes

#13

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

tags: humor

1315 likes

#14

“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ”
― Jane Austen, Emma

2166 likes

#15

“When I fall in love, it will be forever.”
― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

1894 likes

#16

“It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

664 likes

#17

“You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: elizabeth-bennet, past, pleasure, remembrance

1604 likes

#18

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

2658 likes

#19

“My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: anne-eliot, good-company, jane-austen, persuasion

1986 likes

#20

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

4481 likes

#21

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

tags: mr-knightley

598 likes

#22

“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

2076 likes

#23

“A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: quotes-to-define-my-life

1162 likes

#24

“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: happiness, laughter, smiles

2071 likes

#25

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

311 likes

#26

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

525 likes

#27

“I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

485 likes

#28

“Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

388 likes

#29

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

830 likes

#30

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

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