Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
