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Said Quotes by Jane Austen
- It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.
- What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner, I hope, for, by that…
- She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very…
- What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for…
- I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even…
- They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.
- I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what…
- My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the…
- I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch…
- Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say…
- The less said the better.
- Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will…
- Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat?…
- To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last...
- Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.
- She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing,…
- I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.
- A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.
- I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull…
- May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am…
- It taught me to hope," said he, "as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before." Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice
- Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should…
- 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…
- If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from…
- My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?
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