Jane Austen

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for