"One likes to hear what is to..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”

“When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.”

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world”

“M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.”

“Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.”

“The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.”

“It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.”

“Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.”

“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”