Quotes by "Jane Austen"
However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were.β βAnd so ended his affection,β said Elizabeth impatiently. βThere has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!β βI have been used to consider poetry as the food of love,β said Darcy. βOf a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.