Pride and Prejudice

25 Deeply Romantic Jane Austen Quotes That Will Make You Long For Your Own Mr. Darcy

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. 
Katie Mather
September 30, 2016
“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
“My idea of good company, Mr. Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.”
— Anne Elliot, Persuasion
Tagged: Jane Austen, romance, Conversation, company, clever
“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
“A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.”
— Captain Wentworth, Persuasion
Tagged: Jane Austen, romance, heart, Devotion, Feeling
“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed.”
— Captain Wentworth, Persuasion
Tagged: Jane Austen, romance, heart, Devotion, Feeling
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
— Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: Jane Austen, romance, Struggle, Love, Admire
“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, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: Jane Austen, romance, Love, Words, Time, Falling In Love
“'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, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: Jane Austen, romance, Love, Words, Falling In Love, Mind
“My real purpose was to see you, and to judge, if I could, whether I might ever hope to make you love me.”
— Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: Jane Austen, romance, Love, Falling In Love, purpose
“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 succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”
— Elizabeth, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: Jane Austen, romance, Love, Falling In Love, Marry, The Beginning
“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, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: Jane Austen, romance, Love, Falling In Love, Feelings, affection
“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: Jane Austen, romance, Love, Falling In Love, Dancing
“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, Emma
Tagged: Jane Austen, Love, Speeches, Speechless, Truth, romance
“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”
— Elinor, Sense and Sensibility
Tagged: Jane Austen, heart, Knowledge, Easy, Love, romance
“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
“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, Northanger Abbey
Tagged: Jane Austen, romance, Love, Falling In Love, Woman, Torture, Torment
“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, Emma
Tagged: Jane Austen, Love, romance, Fall in love
“Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream”
— Emma, Emma
Tagged: Jane Austen, Love, romance, Fall in love, Speechless, Dreaming
“Beware how you give your heart.”
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Tagged: Jane Austen, romance, Love, Falling In Love, heart
“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 exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.”
— Elinor, Sense and Sensibility
Tagged: Jane Austen, heart, Love, Hope, Broken Heart, romance
“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 might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: Jane Austen, romance, Struggle, Love, Admire
“Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.”
— Isabella, Northanger Abbey
Tagged: Jane Austen, romance, Love, Falling In Love, Woman, heart, Attached
“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Tagged: Jane Austen, heart, Love, Hope, Burning
“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, Sense and Sensibility
Tagged: Jane Austen, heart, Love, Hope, Happiest, Life, Hours Spent Together