Jane Austen Quotes About Love
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
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How much I love every thing that is decided and open!
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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.
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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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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
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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?
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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
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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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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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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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We are all fools in love.
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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
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There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
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My heart is, and always will be, yours.
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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.
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It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.
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You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.
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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.
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The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for having been a valetudinarian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though everywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time.
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Beware how you give your heart.
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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