Jane Austen

“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”

“Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.”

“Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.”

“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”

“Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation?”

“That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”

“Grant us grace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.”

“The less said the better.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”

“I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.”

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”

“To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect”