Quotes - Jennifer Johnson (jennjohnsonwrites) Showing 1-30 of 87

#1

“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

51740 likes

#2

“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

8999 likes

#3

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

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

1870 likes

#4

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

tags: books, catherine, or-the-bower

4975 likes

#5

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: classics

1905 likes

#6

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

2666 likes

#7

“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ”
― Jane Austen, Emma

2173 likes

#8

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

tags: humor, jane-austen

529 likes

#9

“A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: quotes-to-define-my-life

1171 likes

#10

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

tags: friendship

669 likes

#11

“One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

325 likes

#12

“Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise. ”
― Jane Austin

237 likes

#13

“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

23165 likes

#14

“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

20768 likes

#15

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

3717 likes

#16

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
― Jane Austen

2194 likes

#17

“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

1770 likes

#18

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

1722 likes

#19

“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

5702 likes

#20

“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”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

1346 likes

#21

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

tags: mr-bennet

2279 likes

#22

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

1012 likes

#23

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

tags: happiness

3458 likes

#24

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

2266 likes

#25

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

2121 likes

#26

“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”
― Jane Austen, Love and Freindship

tags: advice-for-daily-living

784 likes

#27

“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: affection, romance

1257 likes

#28

“A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: knowledge, women

729 likes

#29

“You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: elizabeth-bennet, past, pleasure, remembrance

1613 likes

#30

“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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