Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
From Jane Austen
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.
Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
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