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- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. Northanger Abbey.
- Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. Mansfield Park.
- Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. Mansfield Park.
- 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.
- “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey.
- “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.
- “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.”
- “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.
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- Sense and Sensibility Quotes. “Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.” “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
- Pride and Prejudice Quotes. “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
- Mansfield Park Quotes. “Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.” “Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.” “We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
- Emma Quotes. “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.” “I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ” “One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
Jan 19, 2023 · “ I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. — Emma Woodhouse, Emma. “ It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. — Narrator, Pride and Prejudice. “ I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures.
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Austen is satirizing the view that woman should be passive and remain simply props and tools to serve a husband’s needs with no regard for their own. Elizabeth’s strong and independent personality does not fit the latter.
Pride and Prejudice Quotes Showing 1-30 of 1,980. “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.
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