Persuasion

• 'I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak an resentful have been, but never inconstant. YOu almost have brought me here. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is tru attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in me."

Emma

• "I cannot make speeches, Emma. If I loved you any less, I might be able to talk about it more."

Pride and Prejudice

• "She followed him with her eyes, envied everyone to whom he spoke, had scarcely patience enough to help anybody to coffee; and then was enraged against herself for being so silly."
• "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."
• "Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?"
• "Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed that if it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger."
• "It is sometimes a disadvantage to be so very guarded. In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels."

Letters to Relatives

• "To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last; you will in the course of the next two or three years meet with somebody more generally unexceptionable than anyone you have yet known, who will love you as warmly as possible, and who will so completely attach you that you will feel you never really loved before."
• "A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."

Mansfield Park

• "Loving, guiding, protecting her, as he had been doing ever since her being ten years old, her mind in so great a degree formed by his care, and her comfort depending on his kindness, an object to him of such close and peculiar interest, dearer by all his own importance with her than anyone else..."

Northanger Abbey

• "Friendship is certainl the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."