"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal." ― Jane Austen Topic(s): Great More From Jane Austen "Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being." "Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony." "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." More In Great "To be great is to be misunderstood."― Ralph Waldo Emerson "Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts."― Allan Bloom "The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply."― Christopher Hitchens