Jane Austen
“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”
“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?”
“There are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.”
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.”
“My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”