Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your ….

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness..

I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, witho….

There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of rese….

She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love..

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad..

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an ho….

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselve….

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous..

Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered he….

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him n….

One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half..

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resoluti….

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion..

Angry people are not always wise..

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment..

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side..

All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone..

I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it..

You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you..

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue..