Jane Austen

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love