Jane Austen - Love Quotes

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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.

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Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her
first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter, I should not have forgiven her; but I consider
everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for
love, if they can.

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

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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

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I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

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His having been in love with the aunt gives Cecilia an additional interest with him. I like the idea — a very proper compliment to an aunt! I rather imagine indeed that nieces are seldom chosen but out of compliment to some aunt or another. I daresay Ben [Anna's husband] was in love with me once, and would never have thought of you if he had not supposed me dead of scarlet fever.

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I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message - for his love at least; his duty, I suppose, was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced, however, that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of tea.

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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

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

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The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-

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I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.

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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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

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

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I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

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I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

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

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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.

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The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

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Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

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

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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

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There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

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

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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.

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The one claim I shall make for my own sex is that we love longest, when all hope is gone.

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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.

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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)

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