a touch more Jane:

From Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey:
– Mrs Allen was one of that numerous class of females, whose society can raise no other emotion than surprise at there being any men in the world who could like them well enough to marry them. (ch. II)
– "In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes." (Tilney, III)
– Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. (IV)
– This sort of mysteriousness, which is always so becoming in a hero, threw a fresh grace, in Catherine's imagination, around his person and manners, and increased her anxiety to know more of him. (V)
– [of novels]...in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best–chosen language." (V)
– ...it did not appear to her that life could supply any greater felicity. (X)
– "What a picture of intellectual poverty!" (Tilney, re: Mrs Allen's company, X)
– "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." (Tilney, XIV)
– A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. (XIV)
– ...from politics it was an easy step to silence. (XIV)
– "...you alone who know my heart can judge of my present happiness." (Isabella, XV)
– "You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible." (Tilney, XXII)
– "The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing." (Tilney – who else?! – XXII)
– "I think it would be acknowledged by the most impartial eye to have many recommendations." (the general, XXII)
– ...her resolution formed, of always judging and acting infuture with the greatest good sense... (XXV)
– ...her grief and agitation were excessive. (XXIX)
– ...a persuasion of her partiality for him had been the only cause of giving her a serious thought. (XXX)
– ...nothing, after all, could be more natural than Catherine's being beloved... (XXXI)
– His pleasing manners and good sense were self–evident recommendations; and having never heard evil of him it was not their way to suppose any evil could be told. (XXXI)