She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to ex….

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy..

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes..

Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of h….

She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short..

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle..

To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a pu….

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked..

The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart.

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did n….

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly..

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding..

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business..

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder..

You have delighted us long enough..

I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too..

I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch the….

Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?.

Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook..

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death..

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do..