"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation?"
- Jane Austen
"That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself."
"To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power."
- Jane Fonda
"You can do one of two things just shut up which is something I don't find easy or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do."
"Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes."
- Jan Masaryk
"Of all the things you wear your expression is the most important."
- Janet Lane
"You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are . . . your simple presence can make others happy."
- Jane Roberts
"Doctor feel my purse."
- Jane Ace
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
"The mob is a sort of bear while your ring is through its nose it will even dance under your cudgel but should the ring slip and you lose your hold the brute will turn and rend you."
- Jane Porter