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Book Quotes by Jane Austen
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has…
- I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I…
- but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
- I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all…
- Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
- No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.
- How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
- A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
- Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that…
- With a book he was regardless of time.
- Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I…
- ...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.
- ... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking…
- Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose…
- I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call…
- I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my…
- I should infinitely prefer a book...
- The person, be it lady or gentlemen who has not pleasure in a good book must be intoleranlty stupid.
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