🌹Austen and Bronte prompts 🌹
“None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
“Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.”
“I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong.”
“Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”
“Better be without sense than misapply it as you do”
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
“Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.”
“I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.”
“I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.”
“I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I saw a blackened ruin.”
“You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream.”
“I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.”
“It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do.”
“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
“When I fall in love, it will be forever.”
“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”
“We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.”
“My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company”
“Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.”
“Reader I married (her/him/them)”
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.”
"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison."
"When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."
"Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings."
"I was quiet, but I was not blind."
"A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself."
"Let us have the luxury of silence."
"I was so anxious to do what is right that I forgot to do what is right."
"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading."
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
"My good opinion once lost is lost forever."
"You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
"It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable."
"There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves."
"I have never been in love ; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall."
"She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love."
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
"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."
"Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it."
"Beware how you give your heart."
"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love."
"If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy."
"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."
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."