Jane Austen

I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.

I dearly love a laugh.

Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings could accomplish, or as his seemed able to bear, for he was too much affected to renew the subject - and when he spoke again, it was something totally different.

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

...For to be sunk, though but for an hour in your esteem is a humiliation to which I know not how to submit. -Susan.

So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing.

Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.—I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

Upon my word, you five your opinion very decidedly for so young a person.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit sense.

Books--oh! No. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.'I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

Where an opinion is general it is usually correct.