Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter, I should not ha….

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance..

I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good….

Our scars make us know that our past was for real.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that….

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope..

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment..

A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other..

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way..

Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is de….

When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and….

From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eye….

Everything nourishes what is strong already.

I can always live by my pen..

A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake ….

one day in the country is exactly like another..

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw ….

You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity..

Each found her greatest safety in silence..

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year..