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Quotes About Relationships

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.
~ Jane Austen
Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world that he can spare from me.
~ Jane Austen
JANE: Will you tell me how long you have loved him? ELIZABETH: I believe it must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.
~ Jane Austen
I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.  So much the better.  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
She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.
~ Jane Austen
Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!
~ Jane Austen
One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
~ Jane Austen
But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state.
~ Jane Austen
Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man is refused, till he offers.
~ Jane Austen
Lady Middleton resigned herself... Contenting herself with merely giving her husband a gentle reprimand on the subject, five or six times every day.
~ Jane Austen
Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends - whether he may be equally capable of retaining them is less certain.
~ Jane Austen
Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.
~ Jane Austen
La imaginación de las mujeres hace que concibamos demasiadas ilusiones respecto de los hombres. -Y los hombres procuran que así sea
~ Jane Austen
If he had any compassion for me' cried her husband impatiently 'he would not have danced half so much! For God's sake, say no more of his partners. Oh! that he sprained his ankle in the first dance!
~ Jane Austen
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
~ Jane Austen
Indeed how can one care for those one has never seen?
~ Jane Austen
There was that constant communication which strong family affection would dictate; and though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other, they could live without disagreement between themselves, or producing coolness between their husbands.
~ Jane Austen
I purposefully abstain from dates on this occasion,that very one may be liberty to fix their own,aware that the cure of unconquerable passions,and the transfer of unchanging attachments,must vary much as to time in different people.---I only entreat every body to believe that exactly at the time when it was quite natural that it should be so, and not a week earlier,Edmund did cease to care about Miss Crawford, and become anxious to marry Fanny,as Fanny herself could desire.
~ Jane Austen
I admire all my three sons-in-law highly. Wickham, perhaps is my favourite; but I think I shall like your husband quite as well as Jane's.
~ Jane Austen
I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.
~ Jane Austen
Letters are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse.
~ Jane Austen
I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.
~ Jane Austen
Lady Russell had only to listen composedly, and wish them happy, but internally her heart revelled in angry pleasure, in pleased contempt, that the man who at twenty-three had seemed to understand somewhat of the value of an Anne Elliot, should, eight years afterwards, be charmed by a Louisa Musgrove.
~ Jane Austen
Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love
~ Jane Austen