Quotes

"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of." Mansfield Park

"A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer." Emma

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?" Pride and Prejudice

"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them." (In a letter dated December 24th 1798)

"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her" Emma

"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?" Pride and Prejudice

"No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment." Northanger Abbey

"But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty woman to deserve them." Mansfield Park

"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." Pride and Prejudice

"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." Northanger Abbey