I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable..

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life..

There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are unit….

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long ….

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Co….

I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be p….

It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of b….

There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to..

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can..

I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled..

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble..

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be..

It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and p….

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny).

Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neate….

A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and ….

Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an ….

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle..

there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most….

Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally t….

This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults..