Jane Austen

Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

I dearly love a laugh... I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason

If ever there were people who, without having great wealth themselves, had every thing they could wish for, I am sure it is us.

Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last

her mind was so busily engaged, that she did not always know when she was silent.

I am worn out with civility… I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure

There 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. | Happy Birthday, Jane Austen. Your writings have given my life much joy!

there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power

Under that peculiar sort of dry, blunt manner, I know you have the warmest heart.

I feel a strong persuasion, this morning, that I shall soon be abroad. I ought to travel. I am tired of doing nothing. I want a change.

The sight of you was like the sight of a wonderful fine thing.

I must remain till I have something better in view.

You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation.

… where health is at stake, nothing else should be considered

We lived for enjoyment. I think differently now; time and sickness and sorrow have given me other notions