Jane Austen

I have been to a play, and I have seen Mr. Garrick, and I have been very much pleased with him.

I am not at all a fine actress, and I do not wish to be thought so.

I have been reading a novel, and I am very much pleased with it. It is called 'Sense and Sensibility,' and it is by a Lady.

I am very fond of gardening, and I am very fond of flowers, and I am very fond of everything that is agreeable.

I am not at all a good cook, and I am very much ashamed of it.

I am not at all a good judge of beauty, and I am very much afraid that I shall never be.

I am not at all a fine dancer, and I do not wish to be thought so.

I have been reading a novel, and I am very much pleased with it. It is called 'Pride and Prejudice,' and it is by a Lady.

I am not at all a good seamstress, and I am very much ashamed of it.

I am not at all a good judge of wit, and I am very much afraid that I shall never be.

I have been to a play, and I have seen Mr. Kean, and I have been very much pleased with him.

I am not at all a fine singer, and I do not wish to be thought so.

I have been reading a novel, and I am very much pleased with it. It is called 'Mansfield Park,' and it is by a Lady.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore every body, not excepting the criminal, to comfort and perfect felicity.

We all have our foibles, and are to be borne with.

Selfishness must always be forgiven, because there is no hope of a cure.

It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are, but what we do.

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look at flowers, is very refreshing.

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.