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#1

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: humor, love, romantic, women

18039 likes

#2

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: inspirational

6088 likes

#3

“Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.”
― Agatha Christie, The Labours of Hercules

525 likes

#4

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories

1318 likes

#5

“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.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

tags: love, mr-darcy

12381 likes

#6

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: romantic

5551 likes

#7

“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship

tags: romance

2886 likes

#8

“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ”
― Jane Austen, Emma

2168 likes

#9

“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: love

1211 likes

#10

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: inspiration

5829 likes

#11

“The past is a pebble in my shoe.”
― Poe

tags: lyrics, misattributed-edgar-allan-poe, poe-singer

519 likes

#12

“The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

1109 likes

#13

“One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.”
― Alexandre Dumas

320 likes

#14

“For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

805 likes

#15

“Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

135 likes

#16

“Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another,”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

395 likes

#17

“......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.”
― Alexandre Dumas, CliffsNotes on Dumas's The Three Musketeers

28 likes

#18

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love

4520 likes

#19

“Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.”
― Christina Westover

689 likes

#20

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

tags: humbert-humbert, love

6119 likes

#21

“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.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: devotion, love, misattributed, pronouncements-of-love

597 likes

#22

“My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

tags: love

18 likes

#23

“I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: dark, disillusionment

867 likes

#24

“The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

191 likes

#25

“Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

72 likes

#26

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

155 likes

#27

“The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. ”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

62 likes

#28

“What fire does not destroy, it hardens”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: inspirational, spiritual-growth

229 likes

#29

“I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

55 likes

#30

“It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: psychology

32 likes

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