Jane Austen

“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.”

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”

“I have been a selfish being all my life in practice, but not in principle.”

“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.”

“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.”

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”

“I have been a selfish being all my life in practice, but not in principle.”

“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.”

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world.”

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

“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!”

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

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