Quote #25
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
More from Jane Austen
- Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
- To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
- It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
- 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.
- People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them.
- An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may …