Jane Austen Romance Quotations

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

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

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

Tacking on the kiss at the end made it too romantic, much more like a Victorian or 20th-century story, rather than the early 19th-century story that it really is.