"No- I cannot talk of books in..." - Quote by Jane Austen
No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.
More by Jane Austen
“To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.”
“Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.”
“there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.”
More on Socializing
“When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.”
“To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!”
“I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.”
More on Preference
“Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better.”
“I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.”
“I've fallen in love with Brooklyn. I'm going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I'll go to the coast only when I have to make a picture.”