"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. . . The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient - at others, so bewildered and so weak - and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! - We are to be sure a miracle every way - but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting, do seem peculiarly past finding out."
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)

"If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it."
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)

"One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)

"What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance."
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in out turn?"
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) [Pride and Prejudice]

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) [Pride and Prejudice]

"You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing."
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) [Pride and Prejudice]