My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company. – Jane Austen
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? – Jane Austen
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. – Jane Austen
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;– it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. – Jane Austen