Quotes on Jane

When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart.

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

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