A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. Jane Austen Read Quote
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. Jane Austen Read Quote
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. Jane Austen Read Quote
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. Jane Austen Read Quote
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. Jane Austen Read Quote
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 be most endearing to the latter. Jane Austen Read Quote
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! Jane Austen Read Quote