Jane Austen.
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.
If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.
If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.