Jane Austen

"How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"

"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."

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

"I do not want to talk about it."

"Perhaps it is one's feelings that make such things easy."

"This will be a good marriage for her."

"I wish I could say I have my usual health."

"Let me not be hasty in my judgment."

"You have bewitched me, body and soul."

"I could not give you an idea of it, even if I wished to do so."

"There is a particular charm in his manner."

"I do justice to your claims."

"We are all fools in love; I cannot pretend otherwise."

"It is an evil to speak ill of anyone."

"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery."

"There is hardly a person in the room whose hand I would not prefer."

"I could not be happy with a man whose tastes did not in every point coincide with my own."

"I have been thinking seriously, and I believe the good in this world prevails."

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

"Lose not yourself on vague imaginings."

"The most dangerous men are those who are capable of everything."

"I have not the heart to refuse any one."

"My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me."

"It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best."

"Fine sentiments do not work well in the world."

"There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind."

"I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed."

"There is a great truth in the observation that 'it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number.'"

"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words which laid the foundation."

"What strange creatures we are!"