She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Harriet was one of those, who, having once begun, would be always in love.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. — 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 do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.” — 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
“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
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
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 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
“You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“So Lizzy,' said he one day, 'your sister is crossed in love I find. I congratulate her. Next to being married, a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It was very well known that no affection was ever supposed to exist between the children of any man by different marriages;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You should have distinguished,' replied Anne. 'You should not have suspected me now; the case so different, and my age so different.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But perseverance in humility of conduct and messages, in self-condemnation for Robert’s offence, and gratitude for the unkindness she was treated with,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I have none of the usual inducements of women to marry. Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“They danced again, and when the assembly closed, parted, on the lady’s side at least, with a strong inclination for continuing the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“[H]is first purpose was to explain himself, and before they reached Mr. Allen's grounds he had done it so well that Catherine… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Anne always contemplated them as some of the happiest creatures of her acquaintance; but still, saved as we all are, by some… — 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
“You speak as if you envied him." "And I do envy him, Emma. In one respect he is the object of my… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love? — 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
“Next to being married, a girl likes being crossed in love a little now and again.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy — 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