Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will…

Quote by Jane Austen

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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible...

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible...

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do...

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do...

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years...

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years...

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she...

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she...

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among...

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among...

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own...

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own...

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed....

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed....

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please,...

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please,...

One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always...

One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always...

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one...

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one...

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

I know that if odor were visible, as color is, I'd see the summer garden...

I know that if odor were visible, as color is, I'd see the summer garden...

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.