"Nobody minds having what is too good..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

“She is loveliness itself.”

“Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.”

“A blast in the human breast is nothing to boast of.”

“Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.”

“If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.”

“In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.”

“But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.”

“The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.”