"You men have none of you any..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.”

“He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.”

“...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.”

“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”

“The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.”

“Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.”

“In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn.”

“I have the deepest regret about 9/11. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the most difficult days I've ever had. I was in Lima, Peru, and had to fly back eight hours not knowing what happened in my own country, knowing thousands of my fellow citizens had died.”

“The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.”