“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

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.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

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.

But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

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

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

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.

No one compares to you, but there’s no you, except in my dreams tonight.

His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. I shall feel it.

Whenever she smiles, my pain lost its breath.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

I’m really insecure about everything.