How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

"We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him."

"my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be..."

"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

"I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh."

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