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#1

“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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#2

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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#3

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

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#4

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

tags: happiness

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#5

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

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#6

“when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: humor

1341 likes

#7

“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

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#8

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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#9

“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: mr-bennet

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#10

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

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#11

“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

#12

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

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#13

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

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#14

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

1402 likes

#15

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

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#16

“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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#17

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”
― Jane Austen

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#18

“Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.”
― Jane Austen

tags: humor, jane-austen

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#19

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

tags: mr-knightley

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#20

“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

51601 likes

#21

“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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#22

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

tags: friendship

670 likes

#23

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

tags: happiness

660 likes

#24

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

tags: books, reading

576 likes

#25

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

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#26

“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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#27

“Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

tags: hope, pleasure, time

211 likes

#28

“Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.”
― Jane Austen

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#29

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

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

177037 likes

#30

“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

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