Jane Austen

I will not say, ‘Do not be uneasy,’ because I know that you are so, at this moment; but be as little uneasy as you can., p. 304, 2013

If we do not have hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough., p. 294, 2013, en:s:Northanger Abbey/Chapter 18

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

Nay, if it is to be guess-work, let us all guess for ourselves. To be guided by second-hand conjecture is pitiful. The premises are before you., p. 302, 2013

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." - Henry Tilney, in: en:s:Northanger Abbey/Chapter 14.

Me?— yes; I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible., p. 268, 2013, en:s:Northanger Abbey/Chapter 16

Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half., p. 228, 2013

“Historians, you think,” said Miss Tilney, “are not happy in their flights of fancy. They display imagination without raising interest.”, p. 226, 2013

No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment., p. 302, 2013, en:s:Northanger Abbey/Chapter 19

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing.

Mrs. Allen was one of that numerous class of females, whose society can raise no other emotion than surprise at there being any men in the world who could like them well enough to marry them. p. 34, 2013, en:s:Northanger Abbey/Chapter 2

As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it. p. 36, 2013