Heart Quotes by Jane Austen

The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart

— Jane Austen

Beware how you give your heart.

— Jane Austen

Time did not compose her.

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She was stronger alone…

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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

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“Louisa, by whom she found herself walking, burst forth into raptures”

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“Her affections had continually been fluctuating but never without an object.”

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She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

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She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

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There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

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“She felt depressed beyond anything she had ever known before.”

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“But her mind was so busily engaged, that she did not always know when she was silent.”

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“She looked down very decidedly upon the Hayters,”

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We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to…

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“…Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to be so…”

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She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she…

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To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason,…

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Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body…

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“But a week must pass; only a week, in Anne's reckoning, and then, she supposed, they must meet; and soon she began…

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She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being…

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“She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart.”

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“but still, from family attachment and habit, and thorough excellence of mind, he had loved her, and watched over her from a…

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She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she…

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“...and no new difficulty arising, no sudden recollection, no unexpected summons, no impertinent intrusion to disconcert their measures, my heroine was most…

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“She regained the street--happy in this, that though much had been forced on her against her will, though she had in fact…

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“While well, and happy, and properly attended to, she had great good humour and excellent spirits; but any indisposition sunk her completely.…

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“Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and, though determined not to slacken as…

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“nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on…

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I understand Crawford paid you a visit?" "Yes." "And was he attentive?" "Yes, very." "And has your heart changed towards him?" "Yes.…

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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings…

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If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing…

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She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances.…

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The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution…

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Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with…

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She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational…

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“She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have…

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I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable…

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The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

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“He knew her illnesses; they never occurred but for her own convenience.”

— Jane Austen

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

— Jane Austen