I have no notion of loving people by halves it is not my nature.” -Isabella Thorpe, Northanger Abbey
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.“She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.” ―Jane Austen, Emma.Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.” ―Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility “It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy it is disposition alone.Knightley must marry no one but herself!” -Jane Austen, Emma “It darted through her with the speed of an arrow that Mr.“A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not he does not.” -Captain Wentworth, Persuasion.“My real purpose was to see you, and to judge, if I could, whether I might ever hope to make you love me.” -Mr.“Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?” ―Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice.“We are all fools in love.” -Charlotte Lucas, Pride and Prejudice.“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.” ―Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.“Poor fellow! he is much distracted by jealousy, which I am not sorry for, as I know no better support of love.” -Lady Susan Vernon, Lady Susan.“A lady’s imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” -Mr.“He was in love, very much in love and it was a love which, operating on an active, sanguine spirit, of more warmth than delicacy, made her affection appear of greater consequence because it was withheld, and determined him to have the glory, as well as the felicity, of forcing her to love him.” -Jane Austen, Mansfield Park.“No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman’s love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.” ―Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey.“A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.“To you I shall say, as I have often said before, do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.” -Jane Austen’s Letters.“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.” ―Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility.“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” -Jane Austen, Emma.“Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.” -Isabella Thorpe, Northanger Abbey.Here are 24 of the best quotes to include in a card, express directly to your friends, family, or inamorata, or just revel in today. In honor of lovers everywhere we are highlighting some of Jane Austen’s insights on courtship, love, and marriage in her novels, and in her life, on the most romantic day of the year, Valentine’s Day.
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