but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon fl….

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony..

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct..

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subse….

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased..

What strange creatures brothers are!.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others..

How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclus….

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody..

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure..

My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain ….

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works..

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot a….

I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me….

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!.

What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter..

Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion..

A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again..

I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling o….

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without..