In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be…yours.

No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

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

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

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

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect