But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
JANE AUSTENBut indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
JANE AUSTENThe enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
JANE AUSTENWithout music, life would be a blank to me.
JANE AUSTENTo be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
JANE AUSTENVanity 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.
JANE AUSTENSilly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
JANE AUSTENSelfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
JANE AUSTENNothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
JANE AUSTENWhat is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
JANE AUSTENI am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.
JANE AUSTENA large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
JANE AUSTENIt is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
JANE AUSTENThere is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
JANE AUSTENHe is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
JANE AUSTENHow wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
JANE AUSTENWhat are men to rocks and mountains?
JANE AUSTEN