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“A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ”
― Jane Austen, Emma