"I am not fond of the idea..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.”

“Time, time will heal the wound.”

“It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.”

“I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.”

“My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers.”

“The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?”

“People are effective because they say 'no,' because they say, 'this isn't for me.'”

“Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.”

“If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.”