"I have not the pleasure of understanding..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.”

“Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.”

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”

“SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail.”

“Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.”

“Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.”

“This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.”

“The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.”

“What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.”