A Tribute to the Books and Characters of Jane Austen

“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”

“But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.”

“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.”

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering . . .”