It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which... - Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."

"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."

"[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible."

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."