Jane Austen Quotes on Love and Pride

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

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.

I have for the first time found what I can truly love. I have found you.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.

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.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.

I am the happiest creature in the world.

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

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do, or fail to do.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Angry people are not always wise.

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

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

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Where pride begins, love ceases.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

Time will explain.

Know your own happiness.