A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
JANE AUSTENA large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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 AUSTENI do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
JANE AUSTENLife seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
JANE AUSTENI declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
JANE AUSTENGood apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
JANE AUSTENI hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
JANE AUSTENBut for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTENWhen I fall in love, it will be forever.
JANE AUSTENAh! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
JANE AUSTENThere is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
JANE AUSTENIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
JANE AUSTENTo wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
JANE AUSTENIf I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
JANE AUSTENI should infinitely prefer a book.
JANE AUSTENSelf-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
JANE AUSTEN