“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
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
“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
“There are few of us who are secure enough to be within love without proper encouragement - Charlotte Lucas” — 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
“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
“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
“Next to being married, a girl likes being crossed in love a little now and again.” — 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
“Her affections had continually been fluctuating but never without an object.” — 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
“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
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 few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well. — 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
“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
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
“Nothing remains for me but to assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affection.” — 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
“She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever… — 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
“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
