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Love Quotes by Jane Austen

203 Love quotes by Jane Austen

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Jane Austen shows love mixed with duty, honour, and gratitude, as characters feel bound by affection and still forgive each other’s flaws. She also points out that love can grow older, that caring for unseen people is possible, and that enthusiasm for love can be overwhelming.

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Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

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Is not poetry the food of love?

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There are secrets in all families.

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We are all fools in love

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“I am glad I have done being in love with him.”

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I am not romantic, you know; I never was.

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When I fall in love, it will be forever.

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I love you. Most ardently.

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I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love

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My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.

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“I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be any more”

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“Shvatila je što je ljubav kad je postala starija - prirodni slijed neprirodnog početka.”

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“Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection.”

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I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

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“Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world that he can spare from me.”

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Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.

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“He had caught both substance and shadow — both fortune and affection, and was just the happy man he ought to be.”

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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can…

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“there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved.”

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“El que ella no se lo reproche, no lo justifica a él. Solo demuestra que ella carece de algo, bien de prudencia,…

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“How then was I to be--to be in love with him the moment he said he was with me? how was I…

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“My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”

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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.

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“I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.”

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“There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself.…

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“And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I…

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“Aye, a very bad business indeed. A new sort of way this, for a young fellow to be making love, by breaking…

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“He was in love, very much in love; and it was a love which, operating on an active, sanguine spirit, of more…

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“How could you begin?’ said she. ‘I can comprehend your going on when you had once made a beginning, but what could…

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“There was that constant communication which strong family affection would dictate; and though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other,…

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“Well, then, I must say that I do not like him at all. Though it has turned out so well for us,…

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“It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,’ said he. ‘Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve,…

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“Anne saw nothing, thought nothing of the brilliancy of the room. Her happiness was from within. Her eyes were bright, and her…

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“My dearest Emma," said he, "for dearest you will always be, whatever the event of this hour's conversation, my dearest, most beloved…

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“She always declares she will never marry, which, of course, means just nothing at all. But I have no idea that she…

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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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I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion,…

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“However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were.” “And so ended his affection,” said Elizabeth impatiently. “There has…

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“...since we see everyday that where there is affection, young people are seldom withheld by immediate want of fortune from entering into…

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“But the same spirits of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is more robust than…

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“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!”

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“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.”

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her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

“But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.”

“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment”

“Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared…

“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…”

“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.”