I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine... - Jane Austen, Persuasion

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."

"She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning."

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

"Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left."

"she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly."