Jane Austen

I declare, after all, there is no enjoyment like reading!

Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity to what we would have others think of us.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.

My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

I dearly love a laugh.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Till this moment, I never knew myself.

angry people are not always wise;

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

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

You must learn some of my philosophy.

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

All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes.

We can all begin freely--a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who would make you so.

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

I have nothing either to hope or fear, and nothing to reproach him with.

A man in distressed circumstances has not time for all those elegant decorums which other people may observe.

We were always good friends, and now we are better.

Every sentence of kindness was a fresh source of happiness to Jane.

To be sure you know no actual good of me--but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

The business of her life was to get her daughters married: its solace was visiting and news.

You have liked many a stupider person.

You are a very strange creature by way of a friend!