Romance Quote by Jane Austen — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

“But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.”

“I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.”

“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love”

“They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the drawing-room at Uppercross, they would have found it most difficult to cease to speak to one another. With the exception, perhaps, of Admiral and Mrs. Croft, who seemed particularly attached and happy, (Anne could allow no other exception even among the married couples) there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so simliar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become aquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.”

“A first kiss is the demarcation line: the same information that a moment ago felt private, all of a suddens seems unfair to withhold. And with that exchange came more.”

“True love is like little roses,”

“Would you believe I was in the neighborhood?”

“I think he could handle being used. It would be good for him. He's having trouble sleeping.”

“Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.”

“He turned to her. “Didn’t you see the lightning strike the steeple?”