More quotes by Jane Austen, Emma

"Without music, life would be a blank to me."
"You must be the best judge of your own happiness."
"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."
"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken."
"Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"