Jane Austen
Quotes
It was a delightful visit—perfect, in being much too short.
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable, old maid! the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
Harriet was one of those, who, having once begun, would be always in love.
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken; but where, as in this case, though the conduct is mistaken, the feelings are not, it may not be very material.
Better be without sense, than misapply it as you do.
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, "Men never know when things are dirty or not;" and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, "Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares."
