My being charming Harriet is not quite enough to induce me to marry, I must find other people charm

My being charming, Harriet, is not quite enough to induce me to marry, I must find other people charming - one other person at least.

Author: Jane Austen

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

A lady's imagination is very rapid, it jumps from admiration to love from love to matrimony in a moment

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Marry or not? Whichever you do, you will repent it.

Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.