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Let those who want to be happy ... be firm — Jane Austen

It's such a happiness when good people get together. — Jane Austen

I could not excuse a man's having more music than love - more ear than eye - a more acute sensibility to fine sounds than to my feelings. — Jane Austen

I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but mine is still true. — Diana Peterfreund

I will only add, God bless you. — Jane Austen

Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles. — Tracy Chevalier

Vanity working on a weak mind produces every kind of mischief. — Jane Austen

I wonder what it was really like back then. We think it's all fun and flirting, but there was probably a lot of ugly reality."
"Like the dancing. — Mary Jane Hathaway

It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable. — Jane Austen

There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that. — JJ Feild

Let's get this movie started. There's nothing like a little Austen to soothe the wounded soul," Theresa said. — Mary Jane Hathaway

People always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them — Jane Austen

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. — Mark Twain

Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.
Jane Austen's Letters August 1796 — Jane Austen

It is very unfair to judge of any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation. — Jane Austen

Lean on me," someone says in Jane Austen to a woman he scarcely knows, and there's no question but that she will, that she takes it for granted. — Barbara Vine

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's. — Jane Austen

I always read Jane Austen during wars. Her complete lack of interest in Napoleon's activities has a soothingly insulating effect. — Louise Andrews Kent

May we take my uncle's letter to read to her? Take whatever you like, and get away. — Jane Austen

Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him. — Jane Austen

My playing is no more like her's, than a lamp is like sunshine. — Jane Austen

Sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a temper as Lydia; — Jane Austen

He gave her to understand that he had looked at her with some earnestness. She knew it well; and she remembered another person's look also. — Jane Austen

Though Darcy could never receive him at Pemberley, yet, for Elizabeth's sake, he assisted him further in his profession. — Jane Austen

As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents. — Philip Pullman

A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number. — Jane Austen

She's a great reader and takes pleasure in nothing else. — Jane Austen

keep your breath to cool your porridge — Jane Austen

Mrs. Jennings, Lady Middleton's mother, was a good-humoured, merry, fat, elderly woman, who talked a great deal, seemed very happy, and rather vulgar. — Jane Austen

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

If he is satisfied with only regretting me, when he might have obtained my affections and hand, I shall soon cease to regret him at all. — Jane Austen

I see your face in my mind's eye under every varying circumstance of the day. — Jane Austen

If Mr. [V.S.] Naipaul takes no pleasure in the happy delineation of the varieties of human nature, then he must be intolerably stupid. — Rosanne Cash

A new sort of way this, for a young fellow to be making love, by breaking his mistress's head, — Jane Austen

It's not Jane Austen, it's not Henry James. But this writer, or writers, well, they're pretty damn good too. — Richard Curtis

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's ... — Jane Austen

Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment. — Jane Austen

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. — Jane Austen

Kissing Hugh was lovely. Glad I invented it. Can't rely on Austen for a snog, that's for sure. — Emma Thompson

The dog show emphasizes bloodline, appearance, and comportment, but money and breeding are never far from anyone's mind. — Karen Joy Fowler

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. — Jane Austen

That's true," she cried - "very true. Little Emma, grow up a better woman than your aunt. Be infinitely cleverer and not half so conceited. — Jane Austen

My name's Bree Chase, but wherever I go, I'm known as the ballbuster." When — Kat Austen

She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart. — Jane Austen

She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas. — Jane Austen

After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. — Mary Ann Shaffer

A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so. — Jane Austen

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. — Jane Austen

I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it. — Jane Austen

I do not dislike him. I consider him, on the contrary, as a very respectable man, who has everybody's good word and nobody's notice ... — Jane Austen

I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless. — Emma Donoghue

Common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood's romantic delicacy. — Jane Austen

It is very worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it. — Jane Austen

Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors. — Florence King

I admire all my three sons-in-law highly. Wickham, perhaps is my favourite; but I think I shall like your husband quite as well as Jane's. — Jane Austen

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health. — Jane Austen

And I decide to stop inwardly composing the feminist world court's prosecutorial summation to the jury. — Laurie Viera Rigler

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best — Jane Austen

Only think of Mrs. Holder's being dead! Poor woman, she has done the only thing in the world she could possibly do to make one cease to abuse her. — Jane Austen

I think it's about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man. — Claire Tomalin

I write only to bid you Farewell. The spell is removed; I see you as you are. — Jane Austen

Wherever you are you should always be contented, but especially at home, because there you must spend the most of your time. — Jane Austen

... she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before. — Jane Austen

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen

Picture of perfection make me sick and wicked. — Jane Austen

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it. — Jane Austen

Too many cooks spoil the broth — Jane Austen

A Woman never looks better than on horseback — Jane Austen

I saw you thro' a telescope and was so struck by your Charms that from that time to this I have not tasted human food. — Jane Austen

Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist. — Austen Chamberlain

Well, some people's feelings are incomprehensible. — Jane Austen

He must love somebody. — Jane Austen

Bridget. Sleeping with a twenty-nine year old off Twitter on the second date is not 'rather like in Jane Austen's day'. (Talitha) — Helen Fielding

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. — Jane Austen

General uncivility is the very essence of love. — Jane Austen

Sometime the worst type of weapon in the world is love. — Jane Austen

Move over, Emma Woodhouse. You have met your match. — Diane Moody

No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else. — Jane Austen

I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy. — Jane Austen

With a book he was regardless of time. — Jane Austen

Do not despair, little Alice. Only persist, and thou shalt see, Jane Austen's all in all to thee. — Fay Weldon

I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them. — Jane Austen

This is an evening of wonders, indeed! — Jane Austen

Of such, one may almost say, that 'the world is not their's, nor the world's law. — Jane Austen

'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real 'Cinderella' tale is 'Mansfield Park.' — Susanna Clarke

And no other attempt made at secrecy than Mrs. Norris's talking of it everywhere as a matter not to be talked of at present. — Jane Austen

Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere. — Jane Austen

A strong sense of duty is no bad part of a woman's portion — Jane Austen

there was no getting away from one's self. So — Jane Austen

Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play. — Jane Austen

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's. — Jane Austen

Sex sells, even to smart, liberated women, and Mr. Darcy was the smart girl's pinup boy. — Karen Doornebos

Fanny's friendship was all that he had to cling to. — Jane Austen

What's ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn't they? — Danielle Steel

One man's style must not be the rule of another's. — Jane Austen

Elizabeth found that nothing was beneath this great lady's attention, which could furnish her with an occasion of dictating to others. — Jane Austen

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant ... — Jane Austen

Living with hope is like rubbing up against a cheese grater. It keeps taking slices off you until there's so little left you just crumble. — Catherine Austen

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal. — Jane Austen

Such a number of looking-glasses! oh Lord! there was no getting away from one's self. — Jane Austen