“...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
“There are very few who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement” — 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
“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
“He was in love, very much in love; and it was a love which, operating on an active, sanguine spirit, of more… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I think you are in very great danger of making him as much in love with you as ever.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Gratitude- not only for once loving her, but loving her still, enough to forgive...” — 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
“Harriet was one of those, who, having once begun, would be always in love.” — 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
“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
“should therefore make the most of every half-hour in which she can command his attention. When she is secure of him, there… — 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
“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
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you. — 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
“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
