If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
JANE AUSTENIf I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
JANE AUSTENIt sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
JANE AUSTENIt is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
JANE AUSTENOne man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
JANE AUSTENTo wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
JANE AUSTENI should infinitely prefer a book.
JANE AUSTENIf I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
JANE AUSTENIn nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
JANE AUSTENI may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
JANE AUSTENHow clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
JANE AUSTENIt is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
JANE AUSTENThere are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
JANE AUSTENWe do not suffer by accident.
JANE AUSTENWisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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 AUSTENHow wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
JANE AUSTEN