Jane Austen: Doing

“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.”

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

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?”

“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.”

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”

“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”

“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”

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

“Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.”

“There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”

“Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.”

“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.”

“Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”

“Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.”

“Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.”

“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.”

“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing; but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.”

“We do not suffer by accident.”