Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I...

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

We are all fools in love

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse. In the present case it took up ten minutes to determine whether the boy were most like...

Marianne had now been brought by degrees, so much into the habit of going out every day, that it was become a matter of indifference to her, whether she went or not: and she prepared...

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured… It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

She felt the loss of Willoughby’s character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart.

There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all BEGIN freely–a slight preference is natural enough; but there are...

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice,” said she. — “In not one of all my clever replies, my delicate negatives, is there any allusion to making a sacrifice. I...

Well! Evil to some is always good to others.

It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.

Every savage can dance.

And with regard to the resentment of his family, or the indignation of the world, if the former were excited by his marrying me, it would not give me one moment’s concern– and the world...

Tempo ou oportunidade não determinam a intimidade, apenas a disposição.

I do not exactly know, for Henrietta and I were at school at the time; but I believe about a year before he married Mary. I wish she had accepted him. We should all have...

With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody’s feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody’s destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken; and she had not quite done...

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Angry people are not always wise.

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

[T]hey are much to be pitied who have not … been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a great deal.

It’s a truth universally acknowledged…

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person...

…and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasses the...

When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme, to preach patience and resignation to a young man whom she had never seen before; nor...

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

Nobody is on my side, nobody takes part with me: I am cruelly used, nobody feels for my poor nerves.

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

Common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood’s romantic delicacy.

Sense will always have attractions for me.

Može li iko upoznati nečiju narav u Batu, ili na kojem drugom javnom mestu… Sve je to ništavno; ne može se tako ništa znati. Samo kada čovek vidi ženu u njenom domu, među njenim prijateljima,...

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

…And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she ever would submit to… She was...

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had...

They danced again, and when the assembly closed, parted, on the lady’s side at least, with a strong inclination for continuing the acquaintance. Whether she thought of him so much while she drank her warm...

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable!

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble

Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.