“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”– Jane Austen Related Quotes “Sure, I suffered a lot. But it’s not like the end of the world and it’s not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I’m able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.”– Ben Affleck “Space has always been confusing to politics.”— P. J. O’Rourke “Yeah, well, not many boys take their girls out on a duck shoot with them as target for a first date. You have to give me points for style.”— Joss Stirling