“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I think you are in very great danger of making him as much in love with you as ever.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love? — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And, and—we think very differently of the nature of women, if they can imagine a woman so very soon capable of returning… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Why is he so altered? From what can it proceed? It cannot be for my sake that his manners are thus softened...… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean? Can you -- can you really be in love with James?” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I love to be reminded of the past, Edward – whether it be melancholy or gay, I love to recall it.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth] — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“So Lizzy,' said he one day, 'your sister is crossed in love I find. I congratulate her. Next to being married, a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But perseverance in humility of conduct and messages, in self-condemnation for Robert’s offence, and gratitude for the unkindness she was treated with,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You should have distinguished,' replied Anne. 'You should not have suspected me now; the case so different, and my age so different.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“A man who has been refused! How could I ever be foolish enough to expect a renewal of his love? Is there… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You are a good girl, and I have great pleasure in thinking you will be so happily settled. I have no doubt… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Harriet was one of those, who, having once begun, would be always in love.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I will end up an old maid.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“As long as you need time to think my affections and wishes are unchanged, and one word from you will silence me… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's. To her, the hand-writing itself, independent of any thing it may… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Nothing remains for me but to assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affection.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The colour which had been driven from her face, returned for half a minute with an additional glow, and a smile of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“To say the truth, though I am hurt and grieved, that I cannot still love her, that I am never to hear… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of… — 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