In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere.” — 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
“Of such, one may almost say, that 'the world is not their's, nor the world's law.” — 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
“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
“There are few of us who are secure enough to be within love without proper encouragement - Charlotte Lucas” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“El que ella no se lo reproche, no lo justifica a él. Solo demuestra que ella carece de algo, bien de prudencia,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved.” — 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
“How then was I to be--to be in love with him the moment he said he was with me? how was I… — 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
“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
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
“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
“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
Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Prettier musings of high-wrought love and eternal constancy could never have passed along the streets of Bath, than Anne was sporting with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“These things happen so often . A young man , such as you describe , Mr.Bingley , so easily falls in love… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She always declares she will never marry, which, of course, means just nothing at all. But I have no idea that she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Anne saw nothing, thought nothing of the brilliancy of the room. Her happiness was from within. Her eyes were bright, and her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“My dearest Emma," said he, "for dearest you will always be, whatever the event of this hour's conversation, my dearest, most beloved… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were.” “And so ended his affection,” said Elizabeth impatiently. “There has… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Of course I love her, but there are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You know that men can love forever. Please belive that my love could never end.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country.” — 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
Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Gratitude- not only for once loving her, but loving her still, enough to forgive...” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world that he can spare from me.” — 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