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Jane Austen quotes

1775–1817 · English novelist

Austen's narrators are dry, precise and frequently sarcastic. Several of her most-shared lines are said by characters she is mocking.

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5 quotes traced to Jane Austen's own work or a reliable witness.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Source: Pride and Prejudice, ch. 1 (1813)

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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.

Source: Pride and Prejudice, ch. 5 (1813) — Mary Bennet

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

Said by Caroline Bingley, who is pretending to read to impress Mr Darcy. Austen is joking.

Source: Pride and Prejudice, ch. 11 (1813)

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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Source: Emma, ch. 9 (1815)

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Know your own happiness.

Source: Sense and Sensibility, ch. 17 (1811)