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The first time I picked up “Pride & Prejudice” was the summer after 5th grade when I was spending the summer in New Zealand visiting my grandma. I immediately fell in love with Jane Austen’s pen, and from there I graduated from Anne Shirley to Elizabeth Bennet. I remember my aunt even taking me to the library to rent the movie so I could watch it too, and we delighted in it like two hopeless romantics. Just like I believe every girl should own a classic Chanel handbag, I believe every girl should stock her bookshelves with Jane Austen. You can’t go wrong with witty words and happy endings. Every now and then, I find it necessary to Ms. Austen for a little Here are some memorable for quotes: “A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.” ― Jane Austen, Emma “One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice “Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice “Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.” ― Jane Austen, Emma “We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.” ― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park “One man's style must not be the rule of another's.” ― Jane Austen, Emma “Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.” ― Jane Austen “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey “Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!” ― Jane Austen, Emma “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice “I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ” ― Jane Austen, Emma “It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language” ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey “Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice “To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice “What strange creatures brothers are!” ― Jane Austen “A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice “Know your own happiness. Want for nothing but patience -- or give it a more fascinating name: Call it hope.” ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” ― Jane Austen “My good opinion once lost is lost forever.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice “I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.” ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility “Without music, life would be a blank to me.” ― Jane Austen, Emma “Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.” ― Jane Austen “There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.” ― Jane Austen “Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.” ― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park “I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.” ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility “You must be the best judge of your own happiness.” ― Jane Austen, Emma “Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself” ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey “...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.” ― Jane Austen, Persuasion “It's such a happiness when good people get together.” ― Jane Austen, Emma “One can never have too large a party.” ― Jane Austen
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