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Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 7.8

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 5.6

Novel

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 4.9

Novel

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 4.0

Novel

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 4.0

Novel

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 4.0

Novel

The sooner every party breaks up, the better.

Jane Austen

Emma · 1816

★ 4.0

Novel

One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.

Jane Austen

Persuasion · 1817

★ 4.0

Novel

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility · 1811

★ 3.9

Novel

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.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 3.9

Novel

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and, however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 3.9

Novel

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.4

Novel

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.4

Novel

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.4

Novel

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 · 1813

★ 2.3

Novel

There is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.3

Novel

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park · 1814

★ 2.3

Novel

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.2

Novel

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park · 1814

★ 2.2

Novel

Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Jane Austen

Emma · 1816

★ 2.2

Letter

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Jane Austen

1798

★ 2.1

Novel

The folly of people's not staying comfortably at home when they can!... Five dull hours in another man's house, with nothing to say or to hear that was not said and heard yesterday, and may not be said and heard again to-morrow... Four horses and four servants taken out for nothing but to convey five idle, shivering creatures into colder rooms and worse company than they might have had at home.

Jane Austen

Emma · 1816

★ 2.1

Novel

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Jane Austen

Emma · 1816

★ 1.4

Novel

Why not seize the pleasure at once?-How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Jane Austen

Emma · 1815

★ 1.3

Short story

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Jane Austen

1817

★ 1.3

Novel

Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere, one is intimate with him by instinct.

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park · 1814

★ 1.3

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