Jane Austen: Quotes about love

Jane Austen was English novelist. Explore interesting quotes on love.

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“When I fall in love, it will be forever.”

Source: Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

“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 book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

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

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

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

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Variant: You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
Source: Persuasion

“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!”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Variant: Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
Source: Sense and Sensibility

“We are all fools in love”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

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

-Mr. Darcy”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

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

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“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.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“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

Variant: In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will no longer be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Source: Pride And Prejudice

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

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

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

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

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

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“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!”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion