Source: Persuasion
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Source: Pride & Predjudice
Source: Northanger abbey
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations
Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
Source: Sense and Sensibility
Source: Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
Source: Emma
“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”
Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
Source: 8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an
“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
Source: Mansfield Park
Source: Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion
“Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.”
Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
“Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.”
“A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.”
Source: Emma
“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”
“If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.”
Source: Emma: A Novel
Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”
Source: Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
“One man's style must not be the rule of another's.”
Source: Emma: By Jane Austen
“Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
“Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.”
Source: Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)
“What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!”
Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations
Source: The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works
Source: 8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an
Source: Northanger abbey
Source: Emma: A Novel
Source: Pride and Prejudice: A Novel
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
Source: Jane Austen on Love and Romance
“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
“I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.”
Source: Emma (the Very Illustrated Edition)
“General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.”
Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations