Two different empty teacups leaning toward each other on a pale green surface. — Original artwork

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen

Two subtly mismatched porcelain cups and a loose pink ribbon on peach linen. — Original artwork

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Jane Austen

An ivory lace fan with a small brass fishhook tucked in its folds on a sage green satin cushion. — Original artwork

Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

Jane Austen

A cracked ornate hand mirror leans against old books beside pale cloth and dried flowers. — Original artwork

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Jane Austen

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Jane Austen