Quotes & Sayings About Love In Northanger Abbey

Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean? Can you
can you really be in love with James? — Jane Austen

They danced again, and when the assembly closed, parted, on the lady's side at least, with a strong inclination for continuing the acquaintance. Whether she thought of him so much while she drank her warm wine and water and prepared herself for bed as to dream of him when there, cannot be ascertained; but I hope it was no more than in a light slumber, or a morning doze at most, for if it be true, as a celebrated writer has maintained, that no young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentlemen before the gentleman is first known to have dreamed of her. — Jane Austen

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. — Jane Austen

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. — Jane Austen