More quotes by Jane Austen, Emma

"How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
"She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy."
"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."
"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."