Quotes from Jane Austen

Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.

I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.

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

When I fall in love, it will be forever.

Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?

I love you. Most ardently.

She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.

We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.

Is not poetry the food of love?

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.

We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.