Jane Austen: Quotes about love

Jane Austen was English novelist. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“I dearly love a laugh… I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“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.”

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Variant: Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
Source: Pride and Prejudice

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

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

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

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“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.”

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

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

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Variant: Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Source: Northanger Abbey

“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

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

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“I love you. Most ardently.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

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

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

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

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Persuasion (1817)
Works, Persuasion

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

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

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

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“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.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

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

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice