Jane Austen

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Realistically speaking, I don't know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be invited to be.

Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.