"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
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
"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."
"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!"
"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."
"If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy."
"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison"
"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."
"I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all wri..."
"She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men."