“Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world that he can spare from me.” — 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
“Her affections had continually been fluctuating but never without an object.” — 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“How could you begin?’ said she. ‘I can comprehend your going on when you had once made a beginning, but what could… — 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
“The colour which had been driven from her face, returned for half a minute with an additional glow, and a smile of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You are a good girl, and I have great pleasure in thinking you will be so happily settled. I have no doubt… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“A man who has been refused! How could I ever be foolish enough to expect a renewal of his love? Is there… — 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
“I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do… — 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
“Elizabeth's spirit's soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unalterable Love, in which we were secure… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She was suddenly roused by the sound of the door-bell, and her spirits were a little fluttered by the idea of its… — 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
“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
“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
“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
If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it. — 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
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. — 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
“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
“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
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
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“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
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
