1008 – “You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”

-Fitzwilliam Darcy in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

903 – “Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”

-Jane Ausen

886 – “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

–Mary Bennet in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

624 – “Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.”

–Edward Gardiner in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

569 – “It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;— it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

–Marianne Dashwood in Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility

515 – “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.”

–Captain Frederick Wentworth in a letter to Anne Elliott in Jane Austen’s Persuasion

431 – “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

–George Knightley in Jane Austen’s Emma

414 – “Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the bangs of disappointed love.”

–Jane Austen from Northanger  Abbey

299 – “I wish, as well as every body else, to be perfectly happy; but, like every body else, it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.”

–Edward Ferrars in Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility

270 – “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”

–Mrs. Elston in Jane Austen’s Emma