“I cannot make speeches, Emma. If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
Jane Austen
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Quotes from Jane Austen's novels and letters.
Chawton, Hampshire
Joined September 2017
- If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
- I cannot make speeches, Emma. If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
- If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.
- If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me.
- “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
- You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
- You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.
- “He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.”
- “Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her.”
- You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.
- “I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.” Emma (2020) was released four years ago.
- Happy Pride and Prejudice Day! First published on 28 January 1813, the original title was First Impressions and was published anonymously. The most popular novel by Jane Austen, inspired countless adaptations for TV, cinema and theatre. What is your favourite quote from the book?



























