Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.

If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark.

You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.

But this is a thing that I know--to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.

Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.

She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.

I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.

One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.

If one has a purpose, life is bearable enough, do you not think so?

I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.

I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

True compassion sees each person as a brother or sister and acts accordingly.

Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great!

We were destined to collide but the river of misunderstanding left us at the opposite banks.

Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known.

The basis of all education is to learn by doing.

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

I have a ton of cousins on my moms side of the family, and we would put on shows together all the time and put on costumes, and we even charged our parents money.

Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake!

Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.