Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart? Jane Austen More Quotes by Jane Austen More Quotes From Jane Austen She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy. Jane Austen ought I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. Jane Austen One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering. Jane Austen There is no charm equal to the tenderness of heart. Jane Austen What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. Jane Austen Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. Jane Austen I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them. Jane Austen The way you build your bed is how you will sleep in it”, Jane Austen We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. Jane Austen What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. Jane Austen The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. Jane Austen performance doing imperfection power A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else. Jane Austen woman good always single