Jane Austen: Quotes about love

Jane Austen was English novelist. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“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. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel, in some degree, as you do; who have not, at least, been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a great deal.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park (1814)
Works, Mansfield Park

“His having been in love with the aunt gives Cecilia an additional interest with him. I like the idea — a very proper compliment to an aunt! I rather imagine indeed that nieces are seldom chosen but out of compliment to some aunt or another. I daresay Ben [Anna's husband] was in love with me once, and would never have thought of you if he had not supposed me dead of scarlet fever.”

Jane Austen

Letter to niece Anna (1814-11-30) regarding characters in Anna's novel [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

“I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message - for his love at least; his duty, I suppose, was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced, however, that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of tea.”

Jane Austen

Letter to Cassandra (1798-12-18) about her nephew George [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters