1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

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 and a half years ago. Dare not say that a 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.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

Sense will always have attractions for me.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.

And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There hasbeen many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who firstdiscovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!""I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love," said Darcy.

A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.

The house seemed to have all the comforts of little Children, dirt and litter.

As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

No! Thank you for thinking I am thoughtful.