The less said the better..

Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream..

He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your ….

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces..

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next..

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves..

The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countri….

I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also..

I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes..

Almost anything is possible with time.

I was quiet but I was not blind..

[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in w….

It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was..

No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of….

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility..

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones..

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she on….

Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindn….

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.….

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all..

Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation..