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Quotes About Relationships

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
~ Jane Austen
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
~ Jane Austen
the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
~ Jane Austen
But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.
~ Jane Austen
Of course I love her, but there are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
~ Jane Austen
Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.
~ Jane Austen
Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
~ Jane Austen
It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
~ Jane Austen
Next to being married, a girl likes being crossed in love a little now and again.
~ Jane Austen
Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
~ Jane Austen
I understand Crawford paid you a visit? Yes. And was he attentive? Yes, very. And has your heart changed towards him? Yes. Several times. I have - I find that I - I find that- Shh. Surely you and I are beyond speaking when words are clearly not enough.... I missed you. And I you.
~ Jane Austen
It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.
~ Jane Austen
Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?
~ Jane Austen
He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away.
~ Jane Austen
Maybe it's that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.
~ Jane Austen
I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more
~ Jane Austen
I think it ought not to be set down as certain, that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.
~ Jane Austen
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
~ Jane Austen
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
~ Jane Austen
It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.
~ Jane Austen
I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.
~ Jane Austen
She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.
~ Jane Austen
My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?
~ Jane Austen
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
~ Jane Austen