More quotes by Jane Austen, Emma

"How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"
"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
"Without music, life would be a blank to me."
"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."