sophie

“How despicably I have acted!" she cried; "I, who have prided myself on my discernment! I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameable mistrust! How humiliating is this discovery! Yet, how just a humiliation! Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our aquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment I never knew myself.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice