Jane Austen

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

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends."

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"

"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."

"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others."

"I am not at all in a humour for talking. Go away!"

"It is often nothing more than habit that keeps us going."

"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope."

"The person who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid."

"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."

"Have you any idea how pleasant it is to like you?"

"There is nothing romantic in a decomposed body."

"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures."

"Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does."

"We are all fools in love."

"There is a very fine line between love and hate."

"I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."

"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery."

"I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony."

"It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone."

"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?"

"To know oneself is all the education one needs."

"Angry people are not always wise."

"There is a flatness about the professions which I cannot approve."

"I could not sit seriously down to write a serious work on the serious subjects of the day without despairing of ever being able to do it as they ought to be done."

"My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them all."

"It is a peculiar torture, to doubt the constancy of the one being on earth whom we trust with all our hearts."