Jane Austen Quotes About Affection

Quotes about: Affection

• Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

  Jane Austen

  Integrity, Romance, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (2006). “Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P”, p.284, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

  Jane Austen

  Strong, Healthy, May

  Jane Austen (1946). “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, p.30, PDFreeBooks.org

• To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

  Jane Austen

  Dance, Falling In Love, Dancing

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.99, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

  Jane Austen

  Women, Valentine's Day, Nine

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 6 (1813)

• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Silence, Feelings

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.458, Wordsworth Editions

• A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

  Jane Austen

  Inspire, Twenties, Pausing

  Jane Austen (1811). “Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.87

• Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

  Jane Austen

  Vanity, Affection, Blind

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.150, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

  Jane Austen

  Opportunity, May, Fixing

  "Pride and Prejudice".

• Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.

  Jane Austen

  Eye, Expression, Feelings

  Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.233, BookBaby

• If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

  Jane Austen

  Encouragement, Gratitude, Believe

• How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his forever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Forever, Would Be

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.346, BookCaps Study Guides

• If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defence, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method in her partiality for Wickham, and that its ill success might, perhaps, authorise her to seek the other less interesting mode of attachment.

  Jane Austen

  Gratitude, Attachment, Two

  Jane Austen (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.371, Waking Lion Press

• Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

  Jane Austen

  Giving, Feelings, Receiving

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.422

• Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her
  first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter, I should not have forgiven her; but I consider
  everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for
  love, if they can.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Marriage, Doe

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