Quotes by Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy. — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will b — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it? — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love. — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered… — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
If a book is well written, I always find it too short. — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the fam — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of part — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect. — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection would naturally dictate — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
I have not known him long indeed, but I am much better acquainted with him than I am with any other creature in the worl — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words agai — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse. In the present case it took u — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
And here is my sweet little Annamaria,’ she added, tenderly caressing a little girl of three years old, who had not made — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility