"I have never yet known what it..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.”

“A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.”

“Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.”

“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”

“What is commonly honored with the name of Friendship is no very profound or powerful instinct. Men do not, after all, love their Friends greatly. I do not often see the farmers made seers and wise to the verge of insanity by their Friendship for one another. They are not often transfigured and translated by love in each other's presence. I do not observe them purified, refined, and elevated by the love of a man.”

“Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.”

“As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.”

“Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.”

“It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.”