Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)

Quotes from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen:

• I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
• Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
• It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
• If a book is well written, I always find it too short.
• To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
• Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
• I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.
• Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
• It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do…
• Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
• A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.