Jane Austen : (6) " If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next. " - Jane Austen " Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. " - Jane Austen " A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. " - Jane Austen " Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. " - Jane Austen " What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. " - Jane Austen " One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. " - Jane Austen