What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

Her only fault is that she lacks sense enough to avoid falling in love with such a fool as I!

I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain.

Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping firewood). Surely we have earned our place in the annals of history—for never has there been so little war in a war.

On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him.

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.