Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“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 being crossed in love a little now and again.” — 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
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. — 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit… — 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 do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice ," said she. — "In not one of all my… — 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
“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
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
“[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
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
“...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
“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
“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
“But the same spirits of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is more robust than… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...since we see everyday that where there is affection, young people are seldom withheld by immediate want of fortune from entering into… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The delightful assurance of her total indifference towards Frank Churchill, of her having a heart completely disengaged from him, had given birth… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“His happiness in knowing himself to have been so long the beloved of such a heart, must have been great enough to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“No puedo soportar más en silencio. Debo hablar con usted por cualquier medio a mi alcance. Me desgarra usted el alma. Estoy… — 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
“There are very few who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement” — 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
“A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of” — 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 of us who have heart enough to be 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 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