From Mansfield Park

The most lovable thing about Austen is her self-referential irony: "Family squabbling is the greatest evil of all, and we had better do anything than be altogether by the ears." (ch. XIII)

This probably describes more people than not: "Never happier! - never happier than when doing what you must know was not justifiable! - never happeir than when behaving so dishonourably and unfeelingly! - Oh, what a corrupted mind!" (ch. XXIII)

On the wages of misguided feminism? "The game was hers, and only did not pay her for what she had given to secure it." (ch. XXV)

"The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's." (ch. XXVII)

"He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before." (ch. XLVIII)