More quotes by Jane Austen, Emma

"Without music, life would be a blank to me."
"She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy."
"Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"
"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."
"How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"