Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.
George Savile
1775 - 1817. English novelist, author of "Pride and Prejudice", "Persuasion", "Emma", "Sense and Sensibility", "Mansfield Park" and "Northanger Abbey".
1. "Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."
source: "Pride and Prejudice"
Categories: Manners and Ethics
2. "There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves."
source: "Emma"
Categories: Various
3. "Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."
source: "Mansfield Park"
Categories: Egoism -:- Forgiveness
4. "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
source: "Emma"
Categories: Joy and Sadness
5. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
source: "Pride and Prejudice"
Categories: Marriage
6. "I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
source: letter to sister Cassandra
Categories: Manners and Ethics
7. "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."
source: "Pride and Prejudice"
Categories: Happiness -:- Marriage
8. "Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
source: "Northanger Abbey"
Categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Love
9. "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"
source: "Pride and Prejudice"
Categories: Joy and Sadness -:- Life and Death
10. "A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
source: "Pride and Prejudice"
Categories: Love -:- Woman and Man -:- Reality and Imagination
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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