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The quotations of

Jane Austen

Author, novelist, writer

1775–1817

77 quotes, most often on Love, Comedy and Marriage.

She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter IIIIn context
- Beauty
- Clever Jabs
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner.
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter XIIn context
- Clever Jabs
- Men
I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter XIIn context
- Clever Jabs
- Marriage
Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
Sense and Sensibility (1811), Chapter XXXVIIn context
- Clever Jabs
- Debate
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Northanger Abbey (1817), Chapter 14In context
- Clever Jabs
- Reading

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