Regency Lady Nouveau

  A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

--Pride and Prejudice

  There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

--Emma

  A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

--Mansfield Park

  I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.

-- Letter to Cassandra

  A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

--Pride and Prejudice

  How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

--Persuasion

  Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

--Northanger Abbey

  I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

--Personal Correspondence