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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    Douglas McGrath
    “Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!”
    Douglas McGrath

  • #4
    Jane Austen
    “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    Jane Austen

  • #5
    Jane Austen
    “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #6
    Jane Austen
    “It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
    Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

  • #7
    Jane Austen
    “I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #8
    Jane Austen
    “Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.”
    Jane Austen

  • #9
    Jane Austen
    “A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
    It is something to think of”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #10
    Jane Austen
    “Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?”
    Jane Austen

  • #11
    Jane Austen
    “One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #12
    Jane Austen
    “Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise. ”
    Jane Austin

  • #13
    Jane Austen
    “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

  • #14
    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

  • #15
    Jane Austen
    “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
    Jane Austen

  • #16
    Jane Austen
    “Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
    Jane Austen

  • #17
    Jane Austen
    “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

  • #18
    Jane Austen
    “I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #19
    Jane Austen
    “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

  • #20
    Jane Austen
    “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

  • #21
    Jane Austen
    “I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #22
    Jane Austen
    “Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”
    Jane Austen

  • #23
    Jane Austen
    “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #24
    Jane Austen
    “Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #25
    Jane Austen
    “To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #26
    Jane Austen
    “Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”
    Jane Austen, Love and Freindship

  • #27
    Jane Austen
    “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

  • #28
    Jane Austen
    “A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #29
    Jane Austen
    “You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #30
    Jane Austen
    “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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