Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

Yeah, but coming from Dudley that's like "I love you.

His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard. I wish he was mine, he's really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.

There are those who'll turn innocent occasions to their advantage.

She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.