Jane Austen

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing ↗

— Jane Austen

#love

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure. ↗

— Jane Austen

#men

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

— Jane Austen

#love #men #women #beauty

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

— Jane Austen

#emma #reserved #love

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct. ↗

— Jane Austen

#lady-russell #life-lessons #singularity #suffering #life

Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment. ↗

— Jane Austen

#literature #love #marianne-dashwood #quote #sense-sensibility

She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart. ↗

— Jane Austen

#heartbreak #love #love

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. ↗

— Jane Austen

#imagination

Every thing was to take its natural course, however, neither impelled nor assisted. ↗

— Jane Austen

#nature

General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be. ↗

— Jane Austen

#friendship