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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
By Jane Austen
And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm. With all dear Emma's little faults, she is an excellent creature. Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend? No, no; she has qualities which may be trusted; she will never lead any one really wrong; she will make no lasting blunder; where Emma errs once, she is in the right a hundred times.
By Jane Austen
Vanity 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.
By Jane Austen
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
By Jane Austen
. . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?
By Jane Austen
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; but when a beginning is made -- when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt -- it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.
By Jane Austen
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
By Jane Austen
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
By Jane Austen
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
By Jane Austen
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
By Jane Austen
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
By Jane Austen
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong
By Jane Austen
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
By Jane Austen
We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
By Jane Austen
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
By Jane Austen
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
By Jane Austen
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.
By Jane Austen
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
By Jane Austen
There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry . It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.
By Jane Austen