Jane Austen

A lady's imagination is very rapid: it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.

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

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.