they only spoke in broken words, which are the tokens of a joy so extreme that they seem rather the expression of sorrow.
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
― Mansfield Park
― Mansfield Park
“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“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”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
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