There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won..

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholl….

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery..

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character..

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted..

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation..

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself..

There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as stranger….

…but then I am unlike other people I dare say..

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then..

You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosi….

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same m….

Till this moment I never knew myself..

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle..

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering..

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents..

If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody wou….

If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness….

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy..

To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind.

I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' B….