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 am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart...

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 his father or mother, and in what particular he resembled either, for of course every body differed, and every body...

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 quietly and mechanically for every evening’s engagement, though without expecting the smallest amusement from any, and very often without knowing,...

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 very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement. In nine cases out of...

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 do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

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 in general would have too much sense to join in the scorn.

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 liked her a great deal better…”For more quotes from the novel visit my blog: frommybooks.wordpress.com

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 nothing — for she had done mischief.

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 I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind,...

…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 last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart. Scenes had passed in Uppercross which made it precious. It...

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 could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent...

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, onakvu kakva je uvek. Tek onda može da stekne ispravno mišljenje. Sve drugo je sređa i nagađanje – a često...

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 not much deceived as to her own skill either as an artist or a musician, but she was not unwilling...

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 you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.” (Elizabeth Bennett)

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 wine and water and prepared herself for bed as to dream of him when there, cannot be ascertained; but I...

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.