Jane Austen

"It is such a happiness when good people get together — and they always do."

- Jane Austen

"To love is to burn, to be on fire."

- 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

"You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

- 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."

- Jane Austen

"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

"The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone."

- Jane Austen

"My heart is, and always will be, yours."

- Jane Austen

"My heart is and always will be yours."

- Jane Austen

"I have loved none but you."

- Jane Austen

"I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours."

- 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

"To be fond of dancing was a certain step toward falling in love."

- Jane Austen

"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."

- Jane Austen

"He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman’s daughter. So far we are equal."

- Jane Austen

"“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”"

- Jane Austen

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."

- Jane Austen

"You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I LOVE YOU."

- Jane Austen

"It is such a happiness when good people get together—And they always do."

- Jane Austen

"And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in."

- Jane Austen

"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."

- Jane Austen

"To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect."

- Jane Austen

"Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions."

- Jane Austen

"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."

- Jane Austen

"I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."

- Jane Austen

"I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve."

- Jane Austen

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."

- Jane Austen

"I sincerely hope your Christmas ... may abound in the gaieties which the season generally brings."

- Jane Austen

"It isn’t what we say or think that denies us, but what we do."

- Jane Austen

"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do."

- Jane Austen

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

- Jane Austen

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

- Jane Austen

"…Among the merits and the happiness of Elinor and Marianne, let it not be ranked as the least considerable, that though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other, they could live without disagreement between themselves..."

- Jane Austen

"“What strange creatures brothers are!”"

- Jane Austen

"Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply."

- Jane Austen

"There is a stubbornness about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

- Jane Austen

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

- Jane Austen

"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere."

- Jane Austen

"Everything nourishes what is strong already."

- Jane Austen

"I will only add, God bless you"

- Jane Austen

"But if I were you, I would stand by my nephew. He has more to give."

- Jane Austen

"Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."

- Jane Austen

"Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint."

- Jane Austen

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

- Jane Austen

"What strange creatures brothers are!"

- Jane Austen

"Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours."

- Jane Austen

"but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short."

- Jane Austen

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."

- Jane Austen

"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort, especially when you are in the company of a sister."

- Jane Austen

"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."

- Jane Austen

"Without music, life would be a blank to me."

- Jane Austen

"Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort."

- Jane Austen

"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

- Jane Austen

"Ah! There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

- Jane Austen

"To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment."

- Jane Austen

"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody."

- Jane Austen

"Angry people are not always wise."

- Jane Austen

"The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder."

- Jane Austen

"I sincerely hope your Christmas...may abound in the gaieties which the season generally brings…"

- Jane Austen

"But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short."

- Jane Austen

"It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do."

- Jane Austen

"What are men to rocks and mountains?"

- Jane Austen

""What are men to rocks and mountains?""

- Jane Austen

"Time will explain."

- Jane Austen

"Indulge your imagination in every possible flight."

- Jane Austen