It's such a happiness when good people get together..

Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk t….

She attracted him more than he liked..

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; a….

She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly….

to hope was to expect.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain..

It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now..

There seemed a gulf impassable between them..

If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor….

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before..

I have no talent for certainty..

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife..

She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be eithe….

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed….

The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himsel….

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library..

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for ….

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are eno….

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope..