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#1

“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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#2

“Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves.

"You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They
are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration
these last twenty years at least.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: histrionics, hysteria, irony, nerves, sarcasm

214 likes

#3

“Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.”
― Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice

326 likes

#4

“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

#5

“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.
And men take care that they should.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

123 likes

#6

“Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: appearance, deceit, humility

415 likes

#7

“A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

311 likes

#8

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

249 likes

#9

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

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

554 likes

#10

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: books, reading

577 likes

#11

“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

51605 likes

#12

“I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these."
- Mr. Darcy”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Persuasion

tags: library

132 likes

#13

“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

#14

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

2658 likes

#15

“Let us have the luxury of silence.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

213 likes

#16

“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: classics

222 likes

#17

“To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: expect, expectations, hope, love, wish

473 likes

#18

“What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

154 likes

#19

“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

2261 likes

#20

“Know your own happiness.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

267 likes

#21

“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: happiness

660 likes

#22

“It's such a happiness when good people get together.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

234 likes

#23

“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

8992 likes

#24

“I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

120 likes

#25

“We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

147 likes

#26

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

209 likes

#27

“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

294 likes

#28

“Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?”
― Jane Austen

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#29

“Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: heartbreak

192 likes

#30

“From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

240 likes

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