In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...there are very few of us who have heart enough to be in love without encouragement.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“There are very few who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“There are few of us who are secure enough to be within love without proper encouragement - Charlotte Lucas” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter,… — 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, and if her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But you must give my compliments to him. Yes — I think it must be compliments. Is not there a something wanted,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“and if he were ever animated enough to be in love, must have long outlived every sensation of the kind. It is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...to be able to impose on the public in such a case; but it is sometimes a disadvantage to be so very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It was very well known that no affection was ever supposed to exist between the children of any man by different marriages;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How despicably I have acted!" she cried; "I, who have prided myself on my discernment! I, who have valued myself on my… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“should therefore make the most of every half-hour in which she can command his attention. When she is secure of him, there… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Whether she thought of him so much, while she drank her warm wine and water, and prepared herself for bed, as to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unalterable Love, in which we were secure… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She was suddenly roused by the sound of the door-bell, and her spirits were a little fluttered by the idea of its… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.” — 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
