...it is very well worth while 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. Consider - if reading had not been taught, Mrs. Radcliffe would have written in vain - or perhaps might not have written at all.
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Related One of Edward's Mistresses was Jane Shore, who has had a play written about her, but it is a tragedy... JANE AUSTEN Why be greedy when you can have it all. ANTHONY T. HINCKS The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even th... RANDY WAYNE WHITE To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Perhaps you would have preferred it if I had not written you any letter. Perhaps you would have like... FéLIX J. PALMA I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest ... JACK DAVENPORT In all probability at least for the next two or three years we will not have a constitution. That ..... JOSE MANUEL BARROSO To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should pr... STEPHEN KING Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that sa... MICHEL FABER It is very annoying - things have been written by people who didn't know me at all or Princess D... HASNAT KHAN How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might,... SAMUEL LOVER There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what ... ROSS PEROT If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was prin... WILLIAM HAZLITT Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thous... ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us. WILLIAM FAULKNER To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or tr... JOHN RUSKIN It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. BROOKS ATKINSON His problem is that he doesn’t want anyone until he can have anyone he wants. CLIFFORD COHEN Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live. JOYCE RACHELLE In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are... VIGGO MORTENSEN Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life? UNKNOWN It would have been nice to have it locked up at this point - not really for our sake but for the sak... CHRIS COONEY If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintell... BERTRAND RUSSELL In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame... ARTHUR C. CLARKE The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of ... PETER BART For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70... PETER DAVISON This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music:... SUSANNA KAYSEN Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the... ANONYMOUS If Life is tough, you have either not been taught well about Life or the right meaning of the word �... HARRISH SAIRAMAN To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD What would have become of me if no one had wanted to read my books? And don't forget all those w... SELMA LAGERLOF I think you have to look at the totality of it as to whether or not it's a legitimate threat or whet... JOHN MARTIN Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it. DEYTH BANGER Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have be... ROALD DAHL Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably cra... PATTI SMITH It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one’s adult enjoyment of what are called... C.S. LEWIS May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo... KATHERINE VUCICEVIC I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but t... JOHN GRISHAM I remember, when I was a teenager, 'Pride And Prejudice' came out. We hadn't had a perio... KATHERINE KELLY I believe that the phrase ‘obligatory reading’ is a contradiction in terms; reading should not b... JORGE LUIS BORGES It's not easy. Many, many, many songs have been written about it. We wouldn't have anything to read ... CLAIRE DANES I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of ... JOHN RUSKIN This affiliation is very important for us. The campus would not agree to have just another school of... ROBERT SULLIVAN But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, ... SETH GRAHAME-SMITH Orangeburg really does not have enough capacity of new homes as it is. If you look at subdivisions t... GURI SANDHU Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all. SHANNON L. ALDER Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS A lot of things came together and it did work out well for us. The weather has been very kind. The g... BOB GREEN I've taught hearing-impaired kids at public schools for 17 years. You might have two or three deaf k... LYNNE COX I have three girls who have been playing together for four years. The rest have played for one or tw... AUDREY WALLACE Life is just a book of chapters written by God which you have to read very carefully before it finis... VIKRANT PARSAI I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus spari... CATHLEEN SCHINE Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less LILY TOMLIN In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama HARPER LEE It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have writ... ADAM CLARKE We've been discussing with them for the last six or eight weeks an extension of the contract. It app... RICHARD KATZ The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be ... WILLIAM FAULKNER I'm not an Emontional, but how??? I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has... DEYTH BANGER The more God is glorified the more man is energic and the more satan is weak. INDONESIA123 If we could have the ability to change the past and right our wrongs would it make us learn from any... GARY F EVANS... The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being wri... STEVEN ERIKSON Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opi... VIGGO MORTENSEN To the loved ones of those who have been killed or injured I extend my deepest sympathy, ... Their d... DIANNE FEINSTEIN I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I h... STEVE ERICKSON I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly no... CAROL BURNETT My new favorite title is How Jane Austen Ruined My Life . I don't have the courage to read it,... KATHERINE REAY Guard your thoughts. Your thoughts define the state of your wellness. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in what... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER It would have been easy for us to give in about two or three times when we had opportunities. The ki... ED SERVAIS Had it not been replenished or reformed by the governor, we would not have been able to proceed. DAN STESSEL I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or late... BARBARA SHER A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more uni... HENRY DAVID THOREAU My plan for the online version of 'Famous Monsters' is to become an online 'uncle' t... HARRY KNOWLES if I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a ten... ERNEST HEMINGWAY If not for today, if not for our past we would never have known something at all. Just say thanks to... BETHA ARIS They say you cannot love two people equally at once,” she said. “And perhaps for others that is ... CASSANDRA CLARE I played really well. I could have had two or three better if I'd made a few putts, but all in all I... GEOFF OGILVY Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all ... FRANCIS BACON A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had... TAB HUNTER Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have wr... LOUIS FARRAKHAN What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - a... LINDA SUE PARK Life is not really what it seems like at times; what you see, hear, read or even taste isn't really ... ROSA M. BETANCES Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Like the strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and ... FRANCIS BACON SR. I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de... C. JOYBELL C. Romances paint at full length people's wooings,
But only give a bust of marriages:
For no one ... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) one big problem and a great paradox in the arena of life is the problem of where or how a person is ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You really don't have to subscribe to the life that had been written for you. ALLAN HENNESSY Darkness does not exist at all. It is merely the absence of light but it is essential for being ther... Q. M. SIDD If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universit... JUDITH MARTIN It might be worth considering . . . for some women who, within just the last year or two, have had l... SARAH DARBY Then you would have acted to change history, but you would have replaced one history with another. Y... DEXTER PALMER
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Every savage can dance. JANE AUSTEN To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. JANE AUSTEN A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. JANE AUSTEN If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next. JANE AUSTEN One man's style must not be the rule of another's. JANE AUSTEN My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conv... JANE AUSTEN The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupi... JANE AUSTEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and ... JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be... JANE AUSTEN Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. JANE AUSTEN Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. JANE AUSTEN To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. JANE AUSTEN Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. JANE AUSTEN I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, wi... JANE AUSTEN I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses... JANE AUSTEN What strange creatures brothers are! JANE AUSTEN ...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. JANE AUSTEN [I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short. JANE AUSTEN Angry people are not always wise. JANE AUSTEN I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But... JANE AUSTEN The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civ... JANE AUSTEN Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk ... JANE AUSTEN A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a mo... JANE AUSTEN I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than ... JANE AUSTEN Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how. JANE AUSTEN Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was neces... JANE AUSTEN I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, ... JANE AUSTEN Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my f... JANE AUSTEN We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked... JANE AUSTEN There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison JANE AUSTEN I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. JANE AUSTEN To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect JANE AUSTEN There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour... JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N... JANE AUSTEN Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection. JANE AUSTEN I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is to... JANE AUSTEN There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic... JANE AUSTEN We are all fools in love JANE AUSTEN ....how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her ... JANE AUSTEN What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I p... JANE AUSTEN Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals cor... JANE AUSTEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has f... JANE AUSTEN I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit. JANE AUSTEN If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault. JANE AUSTEN I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive. JANE AUSTEN I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif... JANE AUSTEN To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at la... JANE AUSTEN Is not general incivility the very essence of love? JANE AUSTEN The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really... JANE AUSTEN In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to te... JANE AUSTEN There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving peop... JANE AUSTEN To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plai... JANE AUSTEN Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last ... JANE AUSTEN ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. JANE AUSTEN You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. JANE AUSTEN It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. JANE AUSTEN Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. JANE AUSTEN A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. JANE AUSTEN Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. JANE AUSTEN From politics it was an easy step to silence. JANE AUSTEN There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. JANE AUSTEN Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerab... JANE AUSTEN One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. JANE AUSTEN It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good co... JANE AUSTEN It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, s... JANE AUSTEN I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than o... JANE AUSTEN One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. JANE AUSTEN One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, noth... JANE AUSTEN Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. JANE AUSTEN Those who do not complain are never pitied. JANE AUSTEN Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. JANE AUSTEN I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. JANE AUSTEN Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o... JANE AUSTEN What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. JANE AUSTEN With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. JANE AUSTEN There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman t... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be... JANE AUSTEN And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm. With all dea... JANE AUSTEN Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion,... JANE AUSTEN Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish prepara... JANE AUSTEN Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. JANE AUSTEN Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? JANE AUSTEN To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. JANE AUSTEN It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing... JANE AUSTEN A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as sh... JANE AUSTEN . . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether... JANE AUSTEN Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young perso... JANE AUSTEN You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have hear... JANE AUSTEN We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. JANE AUSTEN One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be... JANE AUSTEN It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years ... JANE AUSTEN Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any othe... JANE AUSTEN I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by ... JANE AUSTEN My sore throats are always worse than anyone's. JANE AUSTEN If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. JANE AUSTEN I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed femal... JANE AUSTEN It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides. JANE AUSTEN It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respec... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i... JANE AUSTEN Well! Evil to some is always good to others. JANE AUSTEN Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considera... JANE AUSTEN There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? JANE AUSTEN There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the ... JANE AUSTEN I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstan... JANE AUSTEN I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It... JANE AUSTEN What are men to rocks and mountains? JANE AUSTEN Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your acti... JANE AUSTEN One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at... JANE AUSTEN It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before JANE AUSTEN Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking. JANE AUSTEN In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the se... JANE AUSTEN There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. JANE AUSTEN We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our me... JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead o... JANE AUSTEN When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to... JANE AUSTEN The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwel... JANE AUSTEN Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always ... JANE AUSTEN I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few d... JANE AUSTEN It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i... JANE AUSTEN An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones. JANE AUSTEN She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they sho... JANE AUSTEN One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fa... JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taug... JANE AUSTEN The distance is nothing when one has a motive. JANE AUSTEN Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her. JANE AUSTEN A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of JANE AUSTEN My good opinion once lost is lost forever. JANE AUSTEN Till this moment I never knew myself. JANE AUSTEN He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal. JANE AUSTEN An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your... JANE AUSTEN From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, y... JANE AUSTEN To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love JANE AUSTEN You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell m... JANE AUSTEN I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with ... JANE AUSTEN I have not the pleasure of understanding you. JANE AUSTEN I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. JANE AUSTEN There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the... JANE AUSTEN Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste it's fragrance on the desert air. JANE AUSTEN Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one... JANE AUSTEN It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and ... JANE AUSTEN An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her care... JANE AUSTEN I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. JANE AUSTEN There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give ... JANE AUSTEN To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for t... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i... JANE AUSTEN There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. JANE AUSTEN Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that s... JANE AUSTEN Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the m... JANE AUSTEN A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in ... JANE AUSTEN The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really... JANE AUSTEN What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. JANE AUSTEN There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. JANE AUSTEN There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. JANE AUSTEN Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. JANE AUSTEN A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sp... JANE AUSTEN The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without... JANE AUSTEN It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little t... JANE AUSTEN She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she wa... JANE AUSTEN Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo... JANE AUSTEN There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got al... JANE AUSTEN Beware how you give your heart. JANE AUSTEN My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great ... JANE AUSTEN Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affect... JANE AUSTEN You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any oth... JANE AUSTEN Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occas... JANE AUSTEN Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say... JANE AUSTEN The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o... JANE AUSTEN We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. JANE AUSTEN It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these... JANE AUSTEN How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! JANE AUSTEN Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. JANE AUSTEN General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. JANE AUSTEN You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you. JANE AUSTEN Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circums... JANE AUSTEN Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. JANE AUSTEN It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable. JANE AUSTEN I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. JANE AUSTEN My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and ... JANE AUSTEN One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it JANE AUSTEN But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not ... JANE AUSTEN Aunque me dieras cuarenta hombres como él, nunca sería tan feliz como tú. Mientras no posea tu bu... JANE AUSTEN It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well eno... JANE AUSTEN You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer. JANE AUSTEN It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in... JANE AUSTEN My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so m... JANE AUSTEN Vanity, not love, has been my folly. JANE AUSTEN They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again. JANE AUSTEN She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most ... JANE AUSTEN She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should ... JANE AUSTEN Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I ... JANE AUSTEN I am excessively diverted. JANE AUSTEN Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessn... JANE AUSTEN Every thing nourishes what is strong already. JANE AUSTEN