Quotes 61 till 78 of 78.
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To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
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Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.
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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
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You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.
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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.
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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
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