Jane Austen

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”

“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

“Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.”

“Every savage can dance.”

“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”

“An artist cannot do anything slovenly.”

“My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.”

“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.”

“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.”

“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”