It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Know your own happiness. Want for nothing but patience - or give it a more fascinating name: Call it 'hope'Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
I wish with all my heart, that you may be the most blessed being in existence if you can find happiness in such a change of circumstances.Elinor Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility
Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.Elinor Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility
I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.Elinor Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility
What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility
Mama, the more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.Edward Ferrars, Sense and Sensibility
I am convinced that I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility
I have no notion of people's making such a to-do about money and greatness.Mrs. Jennings, Sense and Sensibility