❝ “A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.” Jane Austen
❝ “Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.” Jane Austen
❝ “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” Jane Austen
❝ “A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.” Jane Austen
❝ “If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.” – Jane Austen Jane Austen
❝ “She was sensible and clever, but eager in eveything; her sorrows, her joys could have no moderation.” – Jane Austen Jane Austen
❝ “Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opini…” – Jane Austen Jane Austen