Quotes tagged ‘Jane Austen’

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either me…”

— Elizabeth, amazon.com

“Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.”

— Mr. Willoughby, amazon.com

“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”

— Jane Austen, amazon.com

“Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.”

— Isabella, amazon.com

“She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind mi…”

— Jane Austen, amazon.com

“What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultati…”

— Elinor, amazon.com

“Beware how you give your heart.”

— Jane Austen, amazon.com

“Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream”

— Emma, amazon.com

“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing; but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.”

— Emma, amazon.com

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”

— Jane Austen, amazon.com

“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”

— Jane Austen, amazon.com

“We are all fools in love.”

— Jane Austen, amazon.com

“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”

— Elinor, amazon.com

“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”

— Mr. Knightley, amazon.com

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love”

— Jane Austen, amazon.com

“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”

— Elizabeth, amazon.com

“From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succe…”

— Elizabeth, amazon.com

“My real purpose was to see you, and to judge, if I could, whether I might ever hope to make you love me.”

— Darcy, amazon.com

“'My beauty you had early withstood, and as for my manners—my behavior to you was at least always bordering on the uncivil, and I never spoke to you without rather wishing to give you pain than not. Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?' 'For the liveliness of your mind, I did.'”

— Darcy, Elizabeth, amazon.com

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

— Darcy, amazon.com