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#1

“He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: feminism

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#2

“I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: devotion, love, misattributed, pronouncements-of-love

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#3

“She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: elizabeth-bennet, mr-darcy, pride-and-prejudice

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#4

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: jane-austen, literature, love, northanger-abbey

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#5

“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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#6

“Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: jane-austen, jane-austen-book-club

553 likes

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#7

“Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: honesty

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#8

“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, Pride and Prejudice

tags: pride-and-prejudice

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#9

“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

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#10

“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

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#11

“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

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#12

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: love, romance

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#13

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: men, mountains, rocks

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#14

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

tags: romantic

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#15

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

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#16

“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship

tags: romance

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#17

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

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#18

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

tags: happiness

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#19

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

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#20

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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#21

“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

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#22

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

tags: humor

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#23

“Till this moment I never knew myself.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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#24

“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: love

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#25

“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

1160 likes

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#26

“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: jane-austen, lizzie, pride-and-prejudice

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#27

“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

-Mr. Darcy”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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#28

“Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: affection, duty, feelings, integrity, joy, love, marriage, matrimony, romance, self-determination

790 likes

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#29

“Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?”
― Jane Austen

tags: friendship

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#30

“I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: conversations, sociability, social-anxiety

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