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Memorable Quotes and quotations from Jane Austen
Jane Austen English novelist (1775 - 1817)
Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
- 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.
Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
- Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
- Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
Jane Austen - Emma
- Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown.
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- Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Jane Austen - from a letter to her niece, November 18, 1814
- Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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- What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
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- One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
- Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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- What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in