“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
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“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
NatureAll Quotes by Jane Austen
“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”
Best“General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.”
Friendship“From politics, it was an easy step to silence.”
Politics“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
Good“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
Great“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.”
Beauty“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.”
Alone“Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.”
Women“It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.”
Marriage“A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
Imagination“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”
Home“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.”
Truth“Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.”
Nature“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
Friendship“My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company.”
Good“Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.”
Respect“There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.”
Women“They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.”
Nature“We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.”
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