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#1

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, misattributed-to-g-k-chesterton

18,725 people liked it

#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

9,543 people liked it

#3

“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

11,562 people liked it

#4

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

tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom

2,581 people liked it

#5

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

tags: relaxation

2,140 people liked it

#6

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

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

1,893 people liked it

#7

“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

2,100 people liked it

#8

“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

6,146 people liked it

#9

“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

3,143 people liked it

#10

“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

1,048 people liked it

#11

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

1,092 people liked it

#12

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

1,119 people liked it

#13

“From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: antipathy

854 people liked it

#14

“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

630 people liked it

#15

“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: life, music

127 people liked it

#16

“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: shyness

117 people liked it

#17

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

tags: happiness

89 people liked it

#18

“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling

93,748 people liked it

#19

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

87,266 people liked it

#20

“Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, those-who-matter

73,293 people liked it

#21

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

68,884 people liked it

#22

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

66,133 people liked it

#23

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, honesty, inspirational, unsourced, unverifiable

65,544 people liked it

#24

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed, dreams, love, reality, sleep

62,584 people liked it

#25

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish

56,222 people liked it

#26

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

55,814 people liked it

#27

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom

46,862 people liked it

#28

“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
― Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship

47,914 people liked it

#29

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love

43,240 people liked it

#30

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy

40,376 people liked it

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