Jane Austen Quotes
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
We do not suffer by accident.
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
There are secrets in all families.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
It is such a happiness when good people get together, and they always do.
Everybody likes to go their own way - to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
My sore throats are always worse than anyone elses.
From politics it was an easy step to silence.
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
When I fall in love, it will be forever.
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a greeat deal.
Nobody who has not been in the interior of a family can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
