Jane Austen Quotes on Love

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 love is to burn, to be on fire. – Jane Austen

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. – Jane Austen

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

There is no enjoyment like reading! – Jane Austen

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. – Jane Austen

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. – Jane Austen

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. – Jane Austen

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. – Jane Austen

To love is to burn, to be on fire. – Jane Austen

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. – 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

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. – Jane Austen

A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. – Jane Austen

Jane Austen Quotes on Love part 2

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

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. – 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

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

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. – Jane Austen

It is not what we intended to do, but what we do, that makes us useful. – Jane Austen

There is no enjoyment like reading! – Jane Austen

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does. – Jane Austen

To flatter and follow others without being flattered and followed in turn is but a state of half enjoyment. – Jane Austen

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

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. – Jane Austen

Know your own happiness. – Jane Austen

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. – Jane Austen

The power of doing anything with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. – Jane Austen

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. – Jane Austen

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. – Jane Austen

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

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

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them. – Jane Austen

It is not 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

I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, and how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least, I do not know. – Jane Austen

My mind is too active, I feel too deeply, and everything that interests me must be expressed in action. – 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

The person, be it gentlemen or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. – Jane Austen

Of all the ladies in the land, there was one that I desired. Jane Austen, that’s who I am. And you must feel inspired. – Jane Austen

You have bewitched me, body and soul. – Jane Austen

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. – Jane Austen

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. – Jane Austen

I was in the middle before I knew I had begun. – Jane Austen