If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.
Jane AustenHad I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.
Jane AustenWoman 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 AustenThere is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
Jane AustenPersonal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.
Jane Austen