"For what do we live, but to..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.”

“To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.”

“I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.”

“Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.”

“I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work.”

“People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.”

“It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.”

“The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.”

“For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule.”