In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be...

She began to feel that she had not yet gone through all the changes of opinion and sentiment, which the progress of time and variation of circumstances occasion in this world of changes.

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of twenty-six and eighteen, is to do pretty well; and professing myself moreover convinced, that the General’s unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their...

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

But it was a matter of great consolation to her, that what brought evil to herself would bring good to her sister; and Elinor, on the other hand, suspecting that it would not be in...

. . . she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them.

How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When...

In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used...

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?””For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

Recuerde sólo en el pasado aquello que le sea grato.

Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into...

It is only a novel… or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its...

My fingers”, said Elizabeth, “do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women’s do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same...

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either...

[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 which there was scarcely ever any exchange...

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of...

No podría ser feliz con un hombre cuyo gusto no coincidiera en todo momento con el mío. Tendría que participar en todos mis sentimientos. Los mismos libros, la misma música habría de hechizarnos a los...

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

In his company, I am grieved to the soul by a thousand tender recollections.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.

-As I must therefore conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall choose to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense, according to the usual practice...

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous...

I will not talk of my own happiness,’ said he, ‘great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

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

He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and a decided taste for reading and sedentary pursuits.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

But the same spirits of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is more robust than woman, but he is not longer-lived; which exactly explains my view of the...

It was told to me, it was in a manner forced on me by the very person herself whose prior engagement ruined all my prospects, and told me, as I thought, with triumph. This person’s...

Every body has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

I will only add, God bless you.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

Mr. Collins was to attend them, at the request of Mr. Bennet, who was most anxious to get rid of him, and have his library to himself

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to

If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it