Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

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.

Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.

Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain.

It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.

I'm young; I'm handsome; I'm fast. I can't possibly be beat.