903 – “Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”

-Jane Ausen

624 – “Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.”

–Edward Gardiner in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

569 – “It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;— it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

–Marianne Dashwood in Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility

557 -“It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”

–Andrew Davies [Often misattributed to Jane Austen, see Source Notes]

515 – “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.”

–Captain Frederick Wentworth in a letter to Anne Elliott in Jane Austen’s Persuasion

431 – “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

–George Knightley in Jane Austen’s Emma

414 – “Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the bangs of disappointed love.”

–Jane Austen from Northanger  Abbey

216 – “Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

–Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

88 – “But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”

– Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice