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She looked as though everything that she didn't like had happened to her. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth] — Jane Austen

It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer. — Jane Austen

It's not a luxury if you can't do without it! — Elizabeth Jane Howard

Conducting in a church in London where, he said, — Elizabeth Jane Howard

People don't feel so quarrelsome in warm weather. They get crotchety in the fall and begin to go to law about things after the first hard frosts. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

When I dream, I am ageless. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

Little I ask
And that little is not granted.
There are few crumbs
In this world any more. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried. — Jane Austen

Elizabeth Bennet: I'm very fond of walking. Mr. Darcy: Yes... yes I know. (from Pride & Prejudice, the movie) — Jane Austen

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

He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete. — Jane Austen

He had to do better. He had to be more equitable.
Because Jane Burke was counting upon him. And she was still holding his hand. And he liked it. — Elizabeth Essex

To a life that seizes
Upon content,
Locality seems
But accident. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any. — Jane Austen

... Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to be so ... — Jane Austen

I've got lots of ambitions, but I only ever think of them when I'm lying around in my undies having a snooze. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

There is something dangerous about mirrors ... What dynamite we handle when we lift a mirror or bend towards one! I seldom do. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

Vanity, not love, has been my folly. — Jane Austen

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

Sit down and tell me everything, child. Hurt feelings and hopeless despair are no match for tea and biscuits. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed. — P.D. James

At a touch, he explodes like a snapdragon into loud purrs. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

Why can't they invent a pill that will keep you from remembering someone you don't want to remember? — Elizabeth Jane Howard

Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her [Elizabeth]. — Jane Austen

Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention. — Jane Austen

Their indifference towards Jane when not immediately before them restored Elizabeth to the enjoyment of all her former dislike. — Jane Austen

I use Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream, Â£12, on my lips, and my arms if they're sunburned. I'm past caring that sunbathing is dangerous. — Jane Birkin

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can. — Jane Austen

I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

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

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet — Jane Austen

Sir Humphrey looked like a sleepy old hippo
and when he yawned in that big, big, hippopotamus way Charity couldn't help doing likewise. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

Sex is like petrol. It's a galvaniser, a wonderful fuel for starting a relationship. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet. — Jane Austen

Only of one thing I am sure:
when I dream
I am always ageless. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

You can't oversleep if you don't make plans to wake up early. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

Dessert doesn't count if you're sharing someone else's. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

She laughed at bad jokes, stayed out too late, and overslept too often. Charity Hill loved holidays and she hated budgets and the alarm clock. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth received them with all the forbearance of civility — Jane Austen

Some girls have a real sexy giggle, but whenever I laugh it always comes out somewhere between a bellow and a snort! — Elizabeth Jane Howard

Laughter is just like champagne
only without the headache afterwards. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

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

You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

I am excessively diverted. — Jane Austen

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out. -Elizabeth — Jane Austen

Mr. Wickham was the happy man towards whom almost every female eye was turned, and Elizabeth was the happy woman by whom he finally seated himself — Jane Austen

What I like about limousines is they have tinted windows, so no-one can see if you're snogging in the back seat. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience — Elizabeth Jane Howard

Does breakfast in bed count as a morning workout? — Elizabeth Jane Howard

Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

A good mystery keeps you up on Saturday night. A bad mystery puts you to sleep on Sunday afternoon. Either way, you come out ahead. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

Why does getting ahead always have to involve getting up early? — Elizabeth Jane Howard

Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

... dearest, loveliest Elizabeth [ ... ] By you, I was properly humbled. — Jane Austen

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again. — Jane Austen

A rainy day is like a lovely gift
you can sleep late and not feel guilty. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?
- Elizabeth Bennet — Jane Austen

For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

When you fall asleep after a big lunch you're really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on. — Elizabeth Jane Howard