You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come.

In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still ... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.