“Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Shvatila je što je ljubav kad je postala starija - prirodni slijed neprirodnog početka.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Her affections had continually been fluctuating but never without an object.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He had caught both substance and shadow — both fortune and affection, and was just the happy man he ought to be.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.” ― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Nothing is to be compared to the misery of being bound without Love, bound to one,& preferring another. That is a Punishment… — 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
“The whole story would have been speedily formed under her active imagination; and every thing established in the most melancholy order of… — 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. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough, to forgive all the petulance and acrimony… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!" "I have been used to consider poetry as the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The happiness which this reply produced, was such as he had probably never felt before; and he expressed himself on the occasion… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Aye, a very bad business indeed. A new sort of way this, for a young fellow to be making love, by breaking… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“the futility of something is not always (in love and in politics) a sufficient argument against it.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I… — 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
“There was that constant communication which strong family affection would dictate; and though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,’ said he. ‘Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve,… — 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
![“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in…” quote by Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/37a/jane-austen-39_marriage_everybody-is-taken-in-at-some-period-or_7175.jpg)
