One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

I have observed...in the course of my life, that if things are going outwardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything - even the prospect of living out my days in the Antipodes.

-Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.-Take care, Lizzy; that speech savours strongly of disappointment.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

I want to turn 21 as soon as possible not so that I can drink (how horrific!) but so that I can say, "I am ONE and TWENTY.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possession of her right mind must be in want of a decent man.

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!

Let’s get this movie started. There’s nothing like a little Austen to soothe the wounded soul,” Theresa said.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’.

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a warm house and a well-stocked fridge must be in want of a cat.