Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!.

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever..

Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend..

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us..

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best….

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life..

she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone….

Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise..

I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domesti….

I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice..

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being..

It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build ….

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound..

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air..

It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over un….

My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire..

She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely, if there be c….

Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, d….

Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an ….

A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, ….

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives..