Jane Austen

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

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

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.