Jane Austen Quotes on Love

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. – Jane Austen

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

To love is to burn, to be on fire. – Jane Austen

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. – Jane Austen

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time. – Jane Austen

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…I have loved none but you. – Jane Austen

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. – Jane Austen

The distance is nothing when one has a motive. – Jane Austen

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. – Jane Austen

There are too many souls of our acquaintance whom many might esteem, and whom we cannot. – Jane Austen

I have loved none but you. – Jane Austen

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. – Jane Austen

What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour? – Jane Austen

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison. – Jane Austen

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. – Jane Austen

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. – Jane Austen

I am half agony, half hope…I have loved none but you. – Jane Austen

I am not a romantic you know. I never was. I ask only a comfortable home. – Jane Austen

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. – Jane Austen

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. – Jane Austen

My heart is and always will be yours. – Jane Austen

It was a story of real, honest, tender love – the sort of love that everybody hopes for and most never find. – Jane Austen

I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can. – Jane Austen

I do not know what I could say in your justification except that you are never totally wrong, and that I am very sincerely your friend. – Jane Austen

One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best. – Jane Austen

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. – Jane Austen

Our scars make us know that our past was for real. – Jane Austen

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. – Jane Austen

It is such a happiness when good people get together—and they always do. – Jane Austen

We are all fools in love. – Jane Austen

I am determined that nothing but the very deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. – Jane Austen

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another. – Jane Austen

The distance is nothing when one has a motive. – Jane Austen

You have bewitched me, body and soul. – Jane Austen

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. – Jane Austen

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. – Jane Austen

My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. – Jane Austen

We are all fools in love. – Jane Austen

Nobody minds having what is too good for them. – Jane Austen

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. – Jane Austen

I think very highly of the understanding of all the women in the world—especially of those—whoever they may be–with whom it has made my lot to be acquainted. – Jane Austen

One cannot fix one’s eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. The disagreeable character of the object they can witness in the course of the commonplacen portion of the day—the illuminating power of fancy must assist for they have little chance of lighting on any other. – Jane Austen

What shall I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour? – Jane Austen

Her express joy at being made a Christian, and at the instant of holding out her hand for the book to understand and assent to some clause of the Church Catechism, which Mr. Rushworth—who was doing duty for the chaplain who was indisposed—was requesting her to take in along the room. Fanny could by no means refuse. – Jane Austen

Miss Crawford’s manners improved on acquaintance: the agitated spirits which had driven her on to every extravagance of conduct, and prevented her from being properly acquainted with any of those she had hitherto known, were quieted by the consciousness of being liked by a man of worth; and she looked back with thankfulness to every former slight that had made her indifferent to others, compared with him. – Jane Austen

Nobody minds having what is too good for them. – Jane Austen

I greatly fear that I must say ‘Good-bye’ for I do not know when I shall write again. Nevertheless, ‘good-bye’. – Jane Austen

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones. – Jane Austen

Expectation is the root of all heartache. – Jane Austen