Jane Austen: Quotes about love (page 2)

“No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.”

“Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”

“What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.”

“It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best”

“You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. And wish from this day forth never to be parted from you.”

“Fanny! You are killing me!"
"No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.”

“Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”

“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”

“Vanity, not love, has been my folly.”

“Next to being married, a girl likes being crossed in love a little now and again.”

“I love you. Most ardently.”

“I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]”

“There are very few who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement”

“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.”

“We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.”

“A young woman in love always looks like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief.”

“The one claim I shall make for my own sex is that we love longest, when all hope is gone.”

“We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.”

“To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.”