He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
JANE AUSTENHe is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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 AUSTENTo sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
JANE AUSTENTo love is to burn, to be on fire.
JANE AUSTENWithout music, life would be a blank to me.
JANE AUSTENWisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
JANE AUSTENHappiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
JANE AUSTENThere are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
JANE AUSTENIt sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
JANE AUSTENMy heart is, and always will be, yours.
JANE AUSTENOne man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
JANE AUSTENThe enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
JANE AUSTENYou must be the best judge of your own happiness.
JANE AUSTENAnd sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
JANE AUSTENTo be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
JANE AUSTENSilly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
JANE AUSTEN