Humor Quote by Jane Austen

“...that the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son; and the good fortune to lose him before he reached…

— Jane Austen

“She pitied and despised them from the bottom of her heart, as she stood on the soft carpet, looking at the old engraving of…

— Virginia Woolf

“Though there was nothing very airy about Miss Murdstone, she was a perfect Lark in point of getting up. She was up (and, as…

— Charles Dickens

“It was Miss Murdstone who was arrived, and a gloomy-looking lady she was...She brought with her, two uncompromising hard black boxes, with her initials…

— Charles Dickens

“She'd always been an emotional giver- never afraid to soothe, nurture, touch. She cried big, laughed loud, and refused to shy away from silliness.…

— Jennifer Probst

“Certainly she was wonderfully beautiful. All that could be said of her that was in any sense critical was that there seemed to be…

— Victor Hugo

“She did not like bigots or brilliant bores or academicians who wore their honors, or scholars who wore their doctorates, like dogtags. But she…

— Langston Hughes

“...Mrs. Mullet, when it came to gossip, was equaled only by the News of the World .”

— Alan Bradley

“We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain make us glow with…

— Toni Morrison

“A tender smile softened his face. "That would be Esme. She's nine and a delight. I haven't seen much of her these past few…

— Tracy Anne Warren

“But Lady Louisa was…inoffensive, almost invisible really. The perfect wife for a man like him. Murdo”

— Joanna Chambers

“did she know the inexpressible charm of modesty, how irresistibly it enthralls the heart of man, how firmly it charms him to the throne…

— Matthew Lewis