Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

When you tell me to love him as a brother, I shall no more see imperfection in his face, than I now do in his heart.’

If their praise is censure, your censure may be praise, for they are not more undiscerning, than you are prejudiced and unjust.’

sense will always have attractions for me.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.’

‘Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other.

Know your own happiness.

The alteration is not in them, if their parties are grown tedious and dull. We must look for the change elsewhere.’