Regarding the King Henry VI: "It was in this reign that Joan of Arc lived and made such a row among the English. They should not have burnt her--but they did." - The History of England
"But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them." - Mansfield Park
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment." - Pride and Prejudice (Oh how well she understood the female mind! haha)
"loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable... her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful..." - Pride and Prejudice
"All I want in a man is someone who rides bravely, dances beautifully, sings with vigor, reads passionately, and whose taste agrees in every point with my own." - Sense and Sensibility
"I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed a female who ever dared to be an authoress." - A sarcastic letter to a chauvinistic friend
"Jane Shore... had a play written about her, but it is a tragedy & therefore not worth reading." - The History of England
"...it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world." - Northanger Abbey
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I have ever heard of." - Mansfield Park
Those are FANTASTIC!!
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