Jane Austen

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

Jane Fairfax is a very charming young woman - but not even Jane Fairfax is perfect. She has a fault. She has not the open temper which a man would wish for in a wife.

Nobody who has not been in the interior of a family can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

One man’s style must not be the rule of another’s.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

There are secrets in all families.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.