my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me. Jane Austen More Quotes by Jane Austen More Quotes From Jane Austen What strange creatures brothers are! Jane Austen creaturesstrangebrother We do not suffer by accident. Jane Austen accidentssuffering Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! Jane Austen inspiringhappinessinspirational A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. Jane Austen happyinspiringhappiness Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness. Jane Austen applespiefood I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Jane Austen justicehappinesspeople No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her. Jane Austen falling-in-lovedreamlove-is I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not. Jane Austen stupidityhousefeelings Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. Jane Austen literaturetimewatches One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. Jane Austen natureeyeinspiring She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet. Jane Austen reasonablebeing-wisewise Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to ascertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done. Jane Austen gardenflowerthinking Without music, life would be a blank to me. Jane Austen blankmusicwould-be From politics it was an easy step to silence. Jane Austen politicspoliticalsilence I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. Jane Austen emmadoubtmen A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not. Jane Austen doeheartmen I am excessively diverted. Jane Austen I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth. Jane Austen paperwritingart How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! Jane Austen tirebook Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart. Jane Austen femalehonestyheart
