Jane Austen

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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
From Pride And Prejudice
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
From Mansfield Park
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
From Northanger Abbey
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 they the result of previous study?
From Pride and Prejudice
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
From Pride and Prejudice
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
From Pride and Prejudice
Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest with themselves.
From Mansfield Park
Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be...
From Pride and Prejudice
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
From Pride and Prejudice
And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.
From Emma
But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
From Mansfield Park
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
From Jane Austen's Letters
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
From Northanger Abbey
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
From Pride and Prejudice
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
From Pride And Prejudice
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
From Mansfield Park
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
From Northanger Abbey
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 they the result of previous study?
From Pride and Prejudice
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
From Pride and Prejudice
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
From Pride and Prejudice
Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest with themselves.
From Mansfield Park
Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be...
From Pride and Prejudice
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
From Pride and Prejudice
And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.
From Emma
But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
From Mansfield Park
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
From Jane Austen's Letters
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
From Northanger Abbey
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
From Pride and Prejudice
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
From Pride And Prejudice
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
From Mansfield Park
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
From Northanger Abbey
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 they the result of previous study?
From Pride and Prejudice
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
From Pride and Prejudice
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
From Pride and Prejudice
Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest with themselves.
From Mansfield Park
Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be...
From Pride and Prejudice
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
From Pride and Prejudice
And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.
From Emma
But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
From Mansfield Park
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
From Jane Austen's Letters
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
From Northanger Abbey
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
From Pride and Prejudice