"there is not one in a hundred..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.”

“I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.”

“...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”

“I'll tell ya, my wife and I, we don't think alike. She donates money to the homeless, and I donate money to the topless!”

“Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.”

“I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.”

“To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.”

“The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.”

“Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.”