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.

- Jane Austen

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.
- Jane Austen

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

- Jane Austen

Mr. Bennett: "If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it."

Mrs. Bennett: "Yes--but as it happens, they are all of them very clever."

Mr. Bennett: "This is the only point, I flatter myself, on which we do not agree. I had hoped that our sentiments coincided in every particular, but I must so far differ from you as to think youngest daughter uncommonly foolish."

Pride and Prejudice (Volume 1, Chapter 7)

Jane Austen

"I have never yet found that the advice of a sister could prevent a young man's being in love if he chose it."
- Lady Susan

"Miss Blachford is married, but I have never seen it in the Papers. And one may as well be single if the Wedding is not to be in print."
- March 1815, Letter to her niece Anna Lefroy
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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
- Pride and Prejudice

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
- Henry, Mansfield Park

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
- Mrs. Norris, Mansfield Park

"I suppose there may be a hundred different ways of being in love."
-Emma

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

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
- Pride and Prejudice