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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

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Wisdom is better than Wit, & in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

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Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief

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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love

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... the more I know of the world the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

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Human nature is so well-disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of

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... I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible

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Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you. My mind was more agreeably engaged. I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast

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All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone

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My being charming, Harriet, is not quite enough to induce me to marry; I must find other people charming- one other person at least

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(novels are) "Works in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiness delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best language"

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l always deserve the best treatment, because I never put up with any other

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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

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Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure

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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.... There is nothing to be compared to it. Warmth and tenderness of heart, with an affectionate, open manner, will beat all the cleverness of head in the world, for attraction

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...it is always incomprehensible to a man that a women should ever refuse an offer of marriage

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"But you never read novels, I dare say?" "Why not?" "Because they are not clever enough for you- gentlemen read better books." "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

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Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

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When I first came to Oxford 30 years earlier, any such professionalism would have been greeted with patrician disdain. Those of my colleagues who had actually bothered to finish their Ph.D.’s would sometimes use the title of "Mr." rather than "Dr.," since "Dr." suggested a degree of ungentlemanly labor. Publishing books was regarded as a rather vulgar project. A brief article every 10 years or so on the syntax of Portuguese or the dietary habits of ancient Carthage was considered just about permissible. There had been a time earlier when college tutors might not even have bothered to arrange set tutorial times for their undergraduates. Instead, the undergraduate would simply drop round to their rooms when the spirit moved him for a glass of sherry and a civilized chat about Jane Austen or the function of the pancreas.

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