Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. – Jane Austen
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. – Jane Austen
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. – Jane Austen
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. – Jane Austen
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. – Jane Austen
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow’s feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong. – George Bernard Shaw, to Mrs. Patrick Campbell