Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired.