Jane Austen Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.	Affection
2	It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.	Bachelor
3	It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; but when a beginning is made --when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt --it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.	Dance
4	One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.	Understanding
5	A lady's imagination is very rapid: it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.	Imagination
6	Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.	Pleasure
7	People always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them . . .	Life
8	He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing. He was too diffident to do justice to himself; but when his natural shyness was overcome, his behaviour gave every indication of an open, affectionate heart.	Intimacy
9	Her mind did become settled, but it was settled in a gloomy dejection. She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart...	Despair
10	Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was r	Comfort

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