The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well….

Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and b….

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all..

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly o….

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it..

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety..

The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as sh….

... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out..

What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" S….

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him..

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing..

Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched..

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated yo….

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?.

My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion fo….

... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps ra….

When money is once parted with, it can never return..

And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoy….

Time, time will heal the wound..

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a jok….