"I do not want people to be..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”

“Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.”

“But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.”

“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.”

“It's in my blood to be around people while I was training.”

“A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.”

“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”

“The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.”

“I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.”