Jane Austen

"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"

"On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse. In the present case it took up ten minutes to determine whether the boy were most like his father or mother, and in what particular he resembled either, for of course every body differed, and every body was astonished at the opinion of the others."

"Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection."

"What a revolution in her ideas!"

"And she did what nobody thought of doing... She consulted Anne."