Jane Austen — "I have not patience with the men, they are such fools!"

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

"I am not at all in a humour for writing, I am growing idle and want some help. I have not written a word for a fortnight, and I really think I shall give it up altogether."

"I have just been informed that I am to be an aunt."

"I have been at great pains to avoid the sort of female who is always in love with a man, and always talking of him, and always wishing to marry him."

"I wish, as well as every body else, to be perfectly happy; but, like every body else, it must be in my own way."