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.

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

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.

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!

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.

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

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.

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

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.

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

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

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.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

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.

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

Angry people are not always wise.

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

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love

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

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

…Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to be so…

You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself.

Anne saw nothing, thought nothing of the brilliancy of the room. Her happiness was from within. Her eyes were bright and her cheeks glowed; but she knew nothing about it.

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

He was suffering from disappointment and regret, grieving over what was, and wishing for what could never be.

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

My heart is, and will always be, yours.

i wish i had loved you less, so i can talk about it more

Time will explain.

Time did not compose her.

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

These were reflections that required some time to soften; but time will do almost every thing…

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.