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Jane Austen Quotes
"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do"
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart"
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment"
"Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure"
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife"
"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort"
"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance"
"For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbours and laugh at them in our turn"
"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book"
"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously A person may be proud without being vain Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us"
"I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control"
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other"
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid"
"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love"
