“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!”
— Jane Austen“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“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”
— Jane Austen“She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.”
— Jane Austen“Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”
— Jane Austen“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“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
— Jane Austen“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
— Jane Austen“It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?”
— Jane Austen“There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley”
— Jane Austen“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”
— Jane Austen“Angry people are not always wise.”
— Jane Austen“I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.”
— Jane Austen“no hay que desesperar de lograr aquello que deseamos, pues la asiduidad, si es constante, consigue el fin que se propone...”
— Jane Austen“Te aseguro que no soy de las que quieren a medias. Mis sentimientos siempre son profundos y arraigados...”
— Jane Austen“Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?”
— Jane Austen“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.”
— Jane Austen“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love”
— Jane Austen“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love”
— Jane AustenThere is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
— Jane AustenFriendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
— Jane AustenI declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!
— Jane AustenIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
— Jane AustenYou pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late.
— Jane AustenChivalry is not about grand gestures; it is found in the quiet moments of respect and kindness.
— Jane Austen