“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”
— Jane Austen
“I was quiet but I was not blind.”
“It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading. How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book.”
“We are all fools in love.”
“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
“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.”
“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”
“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.”
“Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.”
“Angry people are not always wise.”
“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”
“I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.”
“Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.”
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
“It’s such a happiness when good people get together.”
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
“The less said the better.”
“My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
“Our scars make us know that our past was for real.”
“Time will explain.”
“Obstinate, headstrong girl!”
“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.”
“I will only add, God bless you.”
“When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.”
“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
“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!”
“Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.”
“I want nothing but death.”
“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
“I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.”
“I walk: I prefer walking.”
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
“Almost anything is possible with time.”
“My heart is, and always will be, yours.”
“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”
“The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.”
“Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.”
“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
“Too many cooks spoil the broth.”
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
“When I fall in love, it will be forever.”
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