More quotes by Jane Austen, Emma

"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."
"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."
"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."
"How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"