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.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.