Jane Austen: Quotes about 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.”

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

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope… I have loved none but 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!”

“We are all fools in love”

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

-Mr. Darcy”

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

“I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.”

“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.”

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

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

“A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of”

“All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!”

“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.”

“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.”

“I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.”

“There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.”

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

“She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.”