Best Jane Austen quotes
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"Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have." - Mansfield Park (Jane Austen in an original family portrait)
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"My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me." - Pride and Prejudice (Alison Steadman as Mrs Bennet, Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet and Susannah Harker as Jane Bennet in the BBC's 1995 television production of Pride and Prejudice)
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid." - Northanger Abbey (Carey Mulligan as Isabella Thorpe and Felicity Jones as Catherine Morland in ITV's Northanger Abbey)
"Without music, life would be a blank to me." - Emma (Gwyneth Paltrow as Emma Woodhouse in the 1996 film adaptation of Emma)
"They are much to be pitied who have not been... given a taste for nature in early life." - Mansfield Park (Jonny Lee Miller as Edmund Bertram and Frances O'Connor as Fanny Price in a 1999 film adaptation of Mansfield Park)
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"One cannot have too large a party." - Emma (A scene from Emma illustrated by artist Ferdinand Pickering)
"People themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever." - Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth as Mr Darcy and Crispin Bonham-Carter as Mr Bingley in the BBC's Pride and Prejudice)
