Jane Austen

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.