I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W. I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.
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Related I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pie... JANE AUSTEN You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious f... JANE AUSTEN You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious f... JANE AUSTEN I am a lonely man," he said again that evening. "And is it not possible that you are also a lonely p... SōSEKI NATSUME You are told to love your neighbour as yourself. How do you love yourself? When I look into my own m... C.S. LEWIS You can tempt me, desert me, or cause me great pain; you can create a dark world that my cause me to... CHRIS STEWART You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you. JANE AUSTEN I always loved you, Will, whatever you did. And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for mys... CASSANDRA CLARE When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have lef... FREDERICK BUECHNER My dearest, I write this letter by candlelight as you lie sleeping. And though I can't hear th... NICHOLAS SPARKS When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have lef... FREDERICK BUECHNER One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be loved by me. You cannot avoid it... ELIZABETH GASKELL Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking ab... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began. "And what of your soul, when ... IAIN PEARS Why must you hurt me, when I love you so? When I can do nothing else nor want to, for love made me a... STEPHEN KING Off with you" is a phrase used by people who lack the curtesy to say something more polite, such as,... LEMONY SNICKET Until death," Jem replied gently. "Those are the words of the oath. 'Until aught but death part thee... CASSANDRA CLARE I appreciate the fact that you have one redeeming quality, Jack, but that is all it is. Just a hint ... K.A. LINDE I must court her now,' said the Prince. 'Leave us alone for a minute.' He rode the white expertly do... WILLIAM GOLDMAN Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I ... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for c... THOMAS MERTON I believe that I have not been fair to you and that, as a result, I must have led you around in circ... HARUKI MURAKAMI O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation . Say it so tha... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO So what I want to know is why it is that I can no longer find you, in my mind. You are still there, ... NEIL GAIMAN Do not shed tears when I have gone but smile instead because I have lived.
Do not shut your eye... DAVID HARKINS I had a dream about you. It's been a while since I could remember any of my dreams, and still, this ... ALEKSANDRA NINKOVIC I see that my presence is burdensome to you. Painful as it was for me to become convinced of it, I s... LEO TOLSTOY Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terri... VIRGINIA WOOLF When you come home, darling, I shant have your letters, but I shall have yourself, which is more-- o... EMILY DICKINSON Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that’s not fair to say. To have issues with bo... ELIZABETH GILBERT I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year; And you must ... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My dear Rosie, Unbeknownst to you I took this chance before, many, many years ago. You ne... CECELIA AHERN I know the consequences of what I’ve done. Kill me if You must. There was a long sil... KIERA CASS My Angel, My greatest hope is that you never have to read this. Vee knows to give you thi... BECCA FITZPATRICK I want you, Hank. I'm much more of an animal than you think. I wanted you from the first moment I sa... AYN RAND Do you see, Harry? Do you see the flaw in my brilliant plan now? I had fallen into the trap I had fo... J.K. ROWLING To my son, If you are reading this letter, then I am dead. I expect to die, if no... CASSANDRA CLARE I have told you that, no matter how many times you have refused to enter the sanctuary, you have onl... PAUL FERINNI How long were you standing there?" "Long enough to know you will be leaving soon. I thoug... JUDITH JAMES I love you,' Buttercup said. 'I know this must come as something of a surprise to you, since all I'v... WILLIAM GOLDMAN Tess, Tess, Tessa. Was there ever a more beautiful sound than your name? To speak it ... CASSANDRA CLARE Christ says: I know you through and through – I know everything about you. The very hairs of your ... MOTHER TERESA This letter, my very dear Eliza, will not be delivered to you unless I shall first have terminated m... RON CHERNOW You speak of sacrifice, but it is not my sacrifice I offer. It is yours I ask of you," he went on. "... CASSANDRA CLARE The purpose was, that I would go to Biddy, that I would show her how humbled and repentant I came ba... CHARLES DICKENS Whatever I do, however I find a way to live, I will tell these stories. I have spoken to every perso... DAVE EGGERS Oh!" cried Anne eagerly, "I hope I do justice to all that is felt by you, and by those who rese... JANE AUSTEN When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have lef... FREDERICK BUECHNER You have no idea of what you are doing to me,” he warned. She smiled. “Are you trying to fr... AMANDA QUICK You are always here with me when I do so, at least in my heart, and it is impossible for me to remem... NICHOLAS SPARKS I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year; And you m... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless n... VITA SACKVILLE-WEST I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If y... RALPH WALDO EMERSON His hand cupped her face, his thumb caressing the delicate line of her jaw. “Listen to me, Raven.�... CHRISTINE FEEHAN Do you love me, Westley? Is that it?’ He couldn’t believe it. ‘Do I love you? My God, if... WILLIAM GOLDMAN What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony ... YANN MARTEL That's the beauty of argument-if you argue correctly, you're never wrong. , THANK YOU FOR SMOKING, 2006 I am Shiloh, whose box you stole. Your godmother's sickness lies in your own keeping, you can heal h... A.E. COPPARD There is no room in my body for anything but you. My arms love you, my ears adore you, my knees shak... WILLIAM GOLDMAN Captain Harvile: Poor Phoebe, she would not have forgotten him so soon. It was not in her nature. JANE AUSTEN You loved me—then what right had you to leave me? What right—answer me—for the poor fancy you ... EMILY BRONTë June, you have killed my sincerity too. I will never again know who I am, what I am, what I love, wh... ANAïS NIN I have given you your liberty, Lucius, is that not enough for you? But I have noticed that you and y... J.K. ROWLING [The Old Astronomer to His Pupil ] Reach me down my SARAH WILLIAMS I am a creature of the Fey Prepare to give your soul away My spell is passion and it is ... HEATHER ALEXANDER You professed your love and quietly stole my heart, I know that was not your intent but it happened.... STARGAZER Lebedeva’s eyes shone. “Masha, listen to me. Cosmetics are an extension of the will. Why do you ... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fea... JAMES JOYCE Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of br... CHARLOTTE BRONTë He shook his head. You're asking that I make myself vulnerable and that I can never do. I have only ... CORMAC MCCARTHY They say you cannot love two people equally at once,” she said. “And perhaps for others that is ... CASSANDRA CLARE When your are in the ring, ... it is mental. You may get hit with a good shot or you may hit him wit... ANDRE WARD You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desir... JAMES JOYCE fit in here, in my palm, in my shadow, don’t be bigger than my idea of you, don’t be more beauti... WARSAN SHIRE I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If y... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Growing old is to be set free, Brother. It is aslow and long-simmering process that extracts from yo... SAMANTHA SOTTO To the Dark Lord, I know I will be dead long before you read this but I want you to know that i... J.K. ROWLING He stopped and took my hand. "If we die, or if I die..." He was speaking of dying, and I couldn... GAIL CARSON LEVINE Are you going to change yet again, shift your position according to the questions that are put to yo... MICHEL FOUCAULT My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so m... JANE AUSTEN By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to yo... MARGARET ATWOOD Suppose... that you acquit me... Suppose that, in view of this, you said to me 'Socrates, on this oc... SOCRATES My soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak, I call you - are you there? I have returned, I am h... C.G. JUNG All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have... J. R. R. TOLKIEN All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have... J.R.R. TOLKIEN What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marian... JANE AUSTEN You are giving an eternal pleasure of life that one can give the maximum enthusiasm to make his lovi... NISHI DE SILVA My Sabine, I just left your room. You were so beautiful lying there sound asleep that I coul... JESSICA SHIRVINGTON I will love you if you don’t marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else your co-star, per... LEMONY SNICKET Did you know sometimes it frightens me-- when you say my name and I can't see you? will yo... EMILIE AUTUMN You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray... EMILY BRONTë Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that's not fair to say. One must have boundaries... ELIZABETH GILBERT The letter had been crumpled up and tossed onto the grate. It had burned all around the edges, so th... LISA KLEYPAS Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was w... JANE AUSTEN I am, O Anxious One. Don’t you hear my voice surging forth with all my earthly feelings? RAINER MARIA RILKE - i have done things i am not proud of, things that brought shame onto my house and my father's name... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Once again I am riding my bike on the streets of loneliness. Your thoughts are the anchor that make ... AVIJEET DAS Let it be known that I am not writing this to please man, for I am not a friend of man or this insan... LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS Dear Forrest, I am sorry there was no time for us to speech other before I left. The doctors m... WINSTON GROOM I yet beseech your majesty,-- If for I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose n... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Every savage can dance. JANE AUSTEN To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. JANE AUSTEN A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. JANE AUSTEN If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next. JANE AUSTEN One man's style must not be the rule of another's. JANE AUSTEN My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conv... JANE AUSTEN The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupi... JANE AUSTEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and ... JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be... JANE AUSTEN Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. JANE AUSTEN Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. JANE AUSTEN To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. JANE AUSTEN Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. JANE AUSTEN I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, wi... JANE AUSTEN I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses... JANE AUSTEN What strange creatures brothers are! JANE AUSTEN ...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. JANE AUSTEN [I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short. JANE AUSTEN Angry people are not always wise. JANE AUSTEN I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But... JANE AUSTEN The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civ... JANE AUSTEN Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk ... JANE AUSTEN A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a mo... JANE AUSTEN I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than ... JANE AUSTEN Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how. JANE AUSTEN Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was neces... JANE AUSTEN I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, ... JANE AUSTEN Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my f... JANE AUSTEN We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked... JANE AUSTEN There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison JANE AUSTEN I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. JANE AUSTEN To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect JANE AUSTEN There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour... JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N... JANE AUSTEN Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection. JANE AUSTEN I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is to... JANE AUSTEN There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic... JANE AUSTEN We are all fools in love JANE AUSTEN ....how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her ... JANE AUSTEN What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I p... JANE AUSTEN Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals cor... JANE AUSTEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has f... JANE AUSTEN I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit. JANE AUSTEN If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault. JANE AUSTEN I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive. JANE AUSTEN I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif... JANE AUSTEN To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at la... JANE AUSTEN Is not general incivility the very essence of love? JANE AUSTEN The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really... JANE AUSTEN In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to te... JANE AUSTEN There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving peop... JANE AUSTEN To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plai... JANE AUSTEN Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last ... JANE AUSTEN ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. JANE AUSTEN You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. JANE AUSTEN It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. JANE AUSTEN Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. JANE AUSTEN A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. JANE AUSTEN Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. JANE AUSTEN From politics it was an easy step to silence. JANE AUSTEN There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. JANE AUSTEN Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerab... JANE AUSTEN One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. JANE AUSTEN It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good co... JANE AUSTEN It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, s... JANE AUSTEN I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than o... JANE AUSTEN One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. JANE AUSTEN One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, noth... JANE AUSTEN Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. JANE AUSTEN Those who do not complain are never pitied. JANE AUSTEN Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. JANE AUSTEN I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. JANE AUSTEN Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o... JANE AUSTEN What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. JANE AUSTEN With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. JANE AUSTEN There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman t... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be... JANE AUSTEN And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm. With all dea... JANE AUSTEN Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion,... JANE AUSTEN Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish prepara... JANE AUSTEN Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. JANE AUSTEN Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? JANE AUSTEN To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. JANE AUSTEN It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing... JANE AUSTEN A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as sh... JANE AUSTEN . . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether... JANE AUSTEN Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young perso... JANE AUSTEN You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have hear... JANE AUSTEN We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. JANE AUSTEN One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be... JANE AUSTEN It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years ... JANE AUSTEN Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any othe... JANE AUSTEN I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by ... JANE AUSTEN My sore throats are always worse than anyone's. JANE AUSTEN If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. JANE AUSTEN I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed femal... JANE AUSTEN It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides. JANE AUSTEN It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respec... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i... JANE AUSTEN Well! Evil to some is always good to others. JANE AUSTEN Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considera... JANE AUSTEN There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? JANE AUSTEN There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the ... JANE AUSTEN I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstan... JANE AUSTEN I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It... JANE AUSTEN What are men to rocks and mountains? JANE AUSTEN Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your acti... JANE AUSTEN One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at... JANE AUSTEN It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before JANE AUSTEN Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking. JANE AUSTEN In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the se... JANE AUSTEN There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. JANE AUSTEN We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our me... JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead o... JANE AUSTEN When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to... JANE AUSTEN The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwel... JANE AUSTEN Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always ... JANE AUSTEN I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few d... JANE AUSTEN It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i... JANE AUSTEN An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones. JANE AUSTEN She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they sho... JANE AUSTEN One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fa... JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taug... JANE AUSTEN The distance is nothing when one has a motive. JANE AUSTEN Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her. JANE AUSTEN A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of JANE AUSTEN My good opinion once lost is lost forever. JANE AUSTEN Till this moment I never knew myself. JANE AUSTEN He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal. JANE AUSTEN An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your... JANE AUSTEN From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, y... JANE AUSTEN To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love JANE AUSTEN You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell m... JANE AUSTEN I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with ... JANE AUSTEN I have not the pleasure of understanding you. JANE AUSTEN I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. JANE AUSTEN There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the... JANE AUSTEN Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste it's fragrance on the desert air. JANE AUSTEN Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one... JANE AUSTEN It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and ... JANE AUSTEN An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her care... JANE AUSTEN I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. JANE AUSTEN There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give ... JANE AUSTEN To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for t... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i... JANE AUSTEN There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. JANE AUSTEN Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that s... JANE AUSTEN Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the m... JANE AUSTEN A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in ... JANE AUSTEN The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really... JANE AUSTEN What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. JANE AUSTEN There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. JANE AUSTEN There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. JANE AUSTEN Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. JANE AUSTEN A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sp... JANE AUSTEN The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without... JANE AUSTEN It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little t... JANE AUSTEN She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she wa... JANE AUSTEN Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo... JANE AUSTEN There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got al... JANE AUSTEN Beware how you give your heart. JANE AUSTEN My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great ... JANE AUSTEN Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affect... JANE AUSTEN You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any oth... JANE AUSTEN Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occas... JANE AUSTEN Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say... JANE AUSTEN The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o... JANE AUSTEN We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. JANE AUSTEN It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these... JANE AUSTEN How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! JANE AUSTEN Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. JANE AUSTEN General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. JANE AUSTEN You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you. JANE AUSTEN Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circums... JANE AUSTEN Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. JANE AUSTEN It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable. JANE AUSTEN I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. JANE AUSTEN My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and ... JANE AUSTEN One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it JANE AUSTEN But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not ... JANE AUSTEN Aunque me dieras cuarenta hombres como él, nunca sería tan feliz como tú. Mientras no posea tu bu... JANE AUSTEN It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well eno... JANE AUSTEN You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer. JANE AUSTEN It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in... JANE AUSTEN My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so m... JANE AUSTEN Vanity, not love, has been my folly. JANE AUSTEN They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again. JANE AUSTEN She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most ... JANE AUSTEN She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should ... JANE AUSTEN Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I ... JANE AUSTEN I am excessively diverted. JANE AUSTEN Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessn... JANE AUSTEN Every thing nourishes what is strong already. JANE AUSTEN