One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. – Jane Austen
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. – Jane Austen
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. – Jane Austen
A ladys imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. – Jane Austen
After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, “Lies – damned lies – and statistics,” still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of. – Leonard Courtney, speech, August 1895, New York, "To My Fellow-Disciples at