Jane Austen

"The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist."

"It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire."

"I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control."

"For what do we live, but to make sport of our neighbors and to laugh at them in our turn?"

"Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us perfect for one another."

"A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word."

"No one who has ever seen you can doubt that you were meant to be an actress."

"There is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. But you know we shall still be sisters."

"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"

"By not talking, I might avoid saying something foolish. By talking, I might say something clever."

"I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!"

"I have invented two or three compliments just to encourage his memory."

"I am not the sort of woman to have given her place in your affections for any one; you are too acute yourself."

"Beware of the uncharitable eye, which is too quick at perceiving every blemish."

"I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really been so, I could not have so readily accepted your refusal."

"There is exquisite pleasure in empathy with nature."

"Nothing is really important; life is not at all serious."

"It is not a state to be ashamed of, to be so much loved and so high in general estimation."

"The great charm of poetry is that it makes everything in life relate to beauty."

"I cannot make speeches. If you will be so good as to say nothing, perhaps it will be the most agreeable thing you can do."

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."

"It is the nature of a jealous monster."

"Do you know, I saw a wedding once."

"There is a good deal of doubt in my mind."

"The world is not so insipid as one might think."

"I read a character immediately."

"Vanity was the beginning and end of Sir Walter Elliot's character."

"I cannot attempt to describe the quickness of my perception in this case."

"Better be without sense than misapply it as you do."

"I am afraid that, like most things which I have declared myself to like, I shall forget my taste for it."