Jane Austen

"Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies."

"Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life."I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think."

"Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?"

"The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the past and the present, the employment of mind and dissipation of unpleasant ideas which only reading could produce made her thankfully turn to a book."

"With a book he was regardless of time."

"but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short."

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

"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody."

"A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."

"They danced again, and when the assembly closed, parted, on the lady’s side at least, with a strong inclination for continuing the acquaintance. Whether she thought of him so much while she drank her warm wine and water and prepared herself for bed as to dream of him when there, cannot be ascertained; but I hope it was no more than in a light slumber, or a morning doze at most, for if it be true, as a celebrated writer has maintained, that no young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman’s love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentlemen before the gentleman is first known to have dreamed of her."

"Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference"- Elizabeth Bennet"

"And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked."

"Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all."

"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."