Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk t….

I have no talent for certainty..

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are eno….

I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy..

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse..

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife..

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for ….

She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly….

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion..

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before..

She attracted him more than he liked..

She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year….

She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be eithe….

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control..

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incompreh….

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet.

An annuity is a very serious business..

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not..

I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be….

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.

Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her ….