More quotes by Jane Austen, Emma

"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."
"You must be the best judge of your own happiness."
"but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again."
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
"Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"