I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

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.

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

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

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

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

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.

Biti dobro upućen u stvari znači lišiti druge mogućnosti da udovolje svojoj taštini, što će pametan čovek uvek nastojati da izbegne.

I've really come to realize you have to love yourself before you can expect someone else to.

If you answered, ''Spin the Bottle,'' then I frankly do not want to know any more about your childhood.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.

Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.

The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.

When I was in school, working as a team was called cheating.

I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.

Half of all home accidents happen in the kitchen, and the family has to eat them.