"To be sure, you are sensible, and I know nobody who does not think you a sensible woman; but I do not think you are a sensible woman to be always in the right."

"I could not sit seriously down to write a serious novel without making fun of it and of myself."

"I have been thinking a good deal about you, and wishing you were here, that we might talk over the wedding."

"I have not the pleasure of understanding you."

"My idea of good company…is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company."