Quotes About Connection

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

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

I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am.

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone." ? Jane Austen, Love and Friendship

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

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.

This would be the way to Fanny's heart. She was not to be won by all that gallantry and wit and good-nature together could do; or, at least, she would not be won by them nearly so soon, without the assistance of sentiment and feeling, and seriousness on serious subjects.

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

F]or though a very few hours spent in hard labour of incessant talking will dispatch more subjects than can really be in common between any two rational creatures, yet with lovers it is different. Between them no subject is finished, no communication is even made, till it has been made at least twenty times over.

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else. Everything is so insipid, so uninteresting, that does not relate to the beloved object!

Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world that he can spare from me.

there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved.

She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.

He admires as a lover, not as a connoisseur. To satisfy me, those characters must be united. I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter into all my feelings: the same books, the same music must charm us both.

Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.

There seemed a gulf impassable between them.

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love. (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

For though a very few hours spent in the hard labour of incessant talking will dispatch more subjects than can really be in common between any two rational creatures, yet with lovers it is different. Between them no subject is finished, no communication is ever made, till it has been made at least twenty times over.

Indeed how can one care for those one has never seen?

My feelings are not often shared, not often understood - Marianne Dashwood

for though a very few hours spent in the hard labor of incessant talking will dispatch more subjects that can really be in common between two rational creatures, yet for the lovers is different. Between them no subject is finished; no communication is ever made, till it has been made at least twenty times over.

no man can be a good judge of the comforts a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex […]

Letters are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse.