“Of course I love her, but there are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“If he does not come to me, then ,' said she, 'I shall give him up for ever.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Of such, one may almost say, that 'the world is not their's, nor the world's law.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Gratitude- not only for once loving her, but loving her still, enough to forgive...” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.” ― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The whole story would have been speedily formed under her active imagination; and every thing established in the most melancholy order of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Nothing is to be compared to the misery of being bound without Love, bound to one,& preferring another. That is a Punishment… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“[Henry] felt himself bound as much in honour as in affection to Miss Morland, and believing that heart to be his own… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Mr. Bennet missed his second daughter exceedingly; his affection for her drew him oftener from home than anything else could do. He… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness. So much the better. I certainly will not persuade myself… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice ," said she. — "In not one of all my… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“[H]is first purpose was to explain himself, and before they reached Mr. Allen's grounds he had done it so well that Catherine… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Anne always contemplated them as some of the happiest creatures of her acquaintance; but still, saved as we all are, by some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You speak as if you envied him." "And I do envy him, Emma. In one respect he is the object of my… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth's spirit's soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Having never fancied herself in love before, her regard had all the warmth of first attachment, and from her age and disposition,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It was told to me, it was in a manner forced on me by the very person herself whose prior engagement ruined… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Next to being married, a girl likes being crossed in love a little now and again.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.” — Jane Austen Copy Share