You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least. – Jane Austen
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. – 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
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. – Jane Austen
Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that theyve got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or Im supposed to be more revealing than Ive been, and to me it just sounds like something I dont want to do. – David Duchovny