簡·奧斯汀名句

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
越該做的事，就越急不能。

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration1 to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
女性的思維非常有跳躍性：從仰慕到愛慕，從愛慕到結婚都是一眨眼間的事。

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
興盛的大都市里，沒道德情操這一說。

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
我所了解效果最好的幸福偏方就是賺大錢。

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal2 it as well as she can.
一個女性如果不幸聰明得什么都懂，那就需要同時了解如何偽裝成什么都不懂。

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs3 of disappointed love.
治愈情傷最好的藥就是友誼帶來的安慰。

Happiness in marriage is entirely4 a matter of chance.
幸福的婚姻都是靠試試看賺來的。

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
想給大家的愛好找個理由時，腦袋轉的是最快的。

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking5 them a great deal.
我不期望遇見好相處的人，由于我會非常喜歡非常喜歡他們，喜歡其他人可是件大麻煩。

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion.
訂了婚的女性最可愛了。她什么都滿足了，什么憂慮都消散了，她可以大大方方去討好自己將來老公，而不需要擔憂人家以為她在玩曖昧。

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
生活就是一連串的無事忙。