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Jane Austen Quotes
11 quotes from Jane Austen — English novelist whose works — Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma — became some of the most beloved in th….
“Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.”
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
“One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”
“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience – or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”
“Half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
“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.”
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”