If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it. — 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
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. — 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
“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
“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
“Nothing remains for me but to assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affection.” — 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
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 love to be reminded of the past, Edward – whether it be melancholy or gay, I love to recall it.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“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 Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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