She hated herself more than she could express.

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.

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

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.

The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.

I crouch in cornersThe infection is widespreadLove epidemic

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward but he who has hope for it is a fool.

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

You don't get out of life what you want. You get out of life who you are.

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids,' is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.

You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

If Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn.

If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection