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  • #1
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #2
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #4
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #5
    Jane Austen
    “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

  • #6
    Jane Austen
    “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

  • #7
    Jane Austen
    “It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
    Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

  • #8
    Jane Austen
    “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

  • #9
    Jane Austen
    “To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #10
    Jane Austen
    “Till this moment I never knew myself.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #11
    Jane Austen
    “An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #12
    Jane Austen
    “He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #13
    Jane Austen
    “Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”
    Jane Austen

  • #14
    Jane Austen
    “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

  • #15
    Jane Austen
    “It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #16
    J.K. Rowling
    “I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a young friend the same advice, so I'm in good company there.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #17
    Jane Austen
    “I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #18
    Jane Austen
    “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

  • #19
    Jane Austen
    “Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.”
    Jane Austen

  • #20
    Jane Austen
    “Elizabeth's spirit's soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her. 'How could you begin?' said she.
    'I can comprehend your going on charmingly, when you had once made a beginning; but what could set you off in the first place?' '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

  • #21
    Deborah Moggach
    “You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.”
    Deborah Moggach, Pride & Prejudice screenplay

  • #22
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray



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