簡·奧斯汀
《傲慢與偏見》作者
You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject forever.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.