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Jane Austen Quotes

Total quotes: 33
“I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.”
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Tagged: Preferred Partner, Choices, Feelings, Love Match
“Will you tell me how long you have loved him?

It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began.”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: Falling In Love, Relationship, Love and Happiness
“There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: love quotes, True Love
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Tagged: Friendship, Love, All Or Nothing
“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Tagged: Happiness, Desire
“You have bewitched me body and soul and I love, I love, I love you.”
— Mr. Darcy, Pride & Prejudice
Tagged: affection, Love and Affection, Confession of Love, How To Say I Love You
“I was quiet, but I was not blind.”
— Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Tagged: Quiet People, Silent, reticent, Introvert, Personality
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
— Jane Austen, Emma
Tagged: Love, Loving, Loving Someone, romance, Attraction, affection
“The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
— Jane Austen, Love and Friendship
Tagged: Love, Love at First Sight, Lost in Love
“Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Tagged: Friendship, Friends
“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Feelings
“...there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison...”
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
Tagged: Love, romance, Mutual Feelings, Mutual Love, Relationships, absurd mutual feelings
“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”
— Jane Austen
Tagged: Education, Knowledge, Independent Woman
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Tagged: True Love, Love, Friends, Nature
“I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.”
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
Tagged: Fall Out Of Love, Lost Love, Forgetting
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Tagged: Best Friends, Friendship, Friends
“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy — it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”
— Jane Austen, Sense & Sensibility
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
“I came here with no expectations. Only to profess, now that I am at the liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.”
— Jane Austen, Emma Thompson, Sense and Sensibility
Tagged: Love Lines, Movie Love Quotes
“I suppose there may be a hundred different ways of being in love.”
— Jane Austen, Emma, Volume 1
Tagged: Love, In love, Being In Love, Loving, Loving Someone, loving a person
“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Tagged: Jane Austen, heart, Love, Hope, Burning
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.”
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
Tagged: How To Say I Love You
“Our scars make us know that our past was real.”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: Past, Healing, Survival, Moving Forward
“I may have lost my heart, but not my self control.”
— Jane Austen, Emma
Tagged: Motivational, Inner Strength, Strong, self control
“We do not suffer by accident.”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: Suffering, accident
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: Marriage, Love, Relationships, Midlife Crisis
“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 every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense. ”
— Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice
Tagged: JaneAusten, TheHumanCondition
“Our scars make us know that our past was for real.”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Scars, Past, Pain
“We are all fools in love.”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: Jane Austen, romance, Love, Falling In Love, Fools
“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: Jane Austen, romance, Love, Falling In Love, heart
“Beware how you give your heart.”
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Tagged: Jane Austen, romance, Love, Falling In Love, heart
“She was stronger alone. ”
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
“There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.”
— Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Tagged: Mansfield Park, Uplifting Literature
“There was never any burst of feeling, any warmth of indignation or delight, at the evil or good of others. This, to Anne, was a decided imperfection. Her early impressions were incurable. She prized the frank, the open-hearted, the eager character beyond all others. Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her still. She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.”
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
Tagged: Jane Austen, romance, Feeling, heart, Love, Incurable
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