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Jane Austen, born on December 16, 1775, and died on July 18, 1817, was a renowned English novelist of the 19th century. Known for her exquisite psychological portrayals and satirical humor, Austen's works mainly revolve around rural life in England, depicting the customs and interpersonal relationships of the time. Her representative works include 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Sense and Sensibility'.

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Famous Jane Austen Quotes

“Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of home, by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry. The bride was elegantly dressed and the two bridesmaids were duly inferior. Her mother stood with salts, expecting to be agitated, and her aunt tried to cry. Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.”

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Source: Mansfield Park

“Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter, I should not have forgiven her; but I consider everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for love, if they can.”

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

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Book:Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

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Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.”

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Book:Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

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Book:Emma

Source: Emma

“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.”

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Book:Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)

Source: Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)

“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.”

Source: Pride and Prejudice: A Novel

“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.”

Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations

“I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.”

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Book:The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”

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Book:Jane Austen on Love and Romance

Source: Jane Austen on Love and Romance

“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.”

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Book:The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

“But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.”

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“It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.”

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Book:Pride and Prejudice(yaoi novel)

Source: Pride and Prejudice(yaoi novel)

“Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?”

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Book:Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.”

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Author:Jane Austen

“The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.”

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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 are all fools in love.”

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Author:Jane Austen

“Beware how you give your heart.”

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Book:The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

“There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.”

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Book:Emma

Source: Emma

“Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.”