JANE AUSTEN

"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives."

"I must have my share in the conversation."

"Success supposes endeavour."

"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."

"You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."

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

"To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect."

"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."

"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!"

"To love is to burn, to be on fire."

"She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet."

"But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea."

"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."

"He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal."

"Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present."

"Without music, life would be a blank to me."

"There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves."

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

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

"To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love."

"In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels."

"I have not the pleasure of understanding you."

"And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in."

"Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without."

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

"If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy."

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

"Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity."

"But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever."

"How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!"

"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air."

"Almost anything is possible with time."

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

"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."

"There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time."

"Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves."

"What is right to be done cannot be done too soon."

"Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions."

"Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort."

"The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone."

"I was quiet but I was not blind."

"Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side."

"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

"Let us have the luxury of silence."

"Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another."

"Our scars make us know that our past was for real."