Quotes About Relationships

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.

Will you tell me how long you have loved him? It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began.

The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart

I suppose there may be a hundred different ways of being in love.

That is very true, replied Elizabeth, and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

My being charming…is not quite enough to induce me to marry. I must find other people charming - one other person at least.

There are few of us who are secure enough to be within love without proper encouragement - Charlotte Lucas

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor...which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony... Quote from a Jane Austen Letter 13 March, 1817

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

Love which did not build a foundation on good sense was doomed.

She] is one of those young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own, and with many men, I dare say, it succeeds. But, in my opinion, it is a paltry device, a very mean art.

Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest with themselves.

I should have thought,' said Fanny after a pause of recollection and exertion, 'that every woman must have felt the possibility of a man's not being approved, not being loved by someone of her sex, at least, let him be ever so generally agreeable. Let him have all the perfections in the world, 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.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connection can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived.

Es una verdad mundialmente reconocida que un hombre soltero, poseedor de una gran fortuna, necesita una esposa.

I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be any more

El poder de separar dos personas que se quieren tan intensamente no está al alcance de una persona ajena.

He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.

I pay very little regard, said Mrs. Grant, to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Oh! to be sure, cried Emma, it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her.