“It is such a happiness when good people get together -- and they always do.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I wish, as well as every body else, to be perfectly happy; but, like every body else, it must be in my… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...And talking of the dear family party which would then be restored, of their mutual pursuits and cheerful society, as the only… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must endeavor to subdue my mind to my fortune. I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to be so…” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, and the extraordinary degree of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You must be the best judge of your own happiness. If you prefer Mr. Martin to every other person; if you think… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Anne could not immediately fall into a quotation again. The sweet scenes of autumn were for a while put by - unless… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elinor, for shame!" said Marianne, "money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Beyond a competence, it… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Upon my word, sir, your hope is a rather extraordinary one after my declaration. I do assure you that I am not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of twenty-six and eighteen, is to do pretty well; and professing myself moreover convinced,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who would make… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness,” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.” ~ Jane Austen (Pride & Prejudice)” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favor of happiness, as a very resolute character.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
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