"I am very fond of Bath. I think it is the best place in the world for a woman to be in who wants to be married."

"A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."

"I am not at all a fine lady."

"There are such beings in the world, of so much refinement as to be always miserable."

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