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Danh ngôn của Jane Austen (Sứ mệnh: 2)

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.