I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.

Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

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

You have delighted us long enough.