Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation. – Jane Austen
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? – Jane Austen

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation. – Jane Austen
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? – Jane Austen
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. – Jane Austen
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. – Jane Austen
We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. – James Thurber