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Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint

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There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

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

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It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.

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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

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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 e...more

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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking ...more

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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

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

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Mr. ***** is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends -- whether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain.

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I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.

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

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The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

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But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

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Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.