No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

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 only smiles, I laugh.

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable...

I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, ‘SHE a beauty!–I should as soon call her mother a wit.’ But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I...

I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

I cannot, I cannot,’ cried Marianne; ‘leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do not torture me so. Oh! how easy for those who have no sorrow...

No sé, todavía qué es lo que separa el aprecio del amor.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

One man’s style must not be the rule of another’s.

Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

It is indolence… Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman...

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 of coming to...

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

And so ended his affection,” said Elizabeth impatiently. “There hasbeen many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who firstdiscovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!””I have been used...

Nada más capcioso que las apariencias de humildad. A veces nacen de pereza para sostener una opinión y a veces son un modo indirecto de elogiarse a sí mismo.

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge...

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice...

And books! …she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into unworthy hands; and she would have every book that tells her...

Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one;...

Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.—I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing...

We do not suffer by accident.

… strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride – where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

…she had no resources for solitude…

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and...

take warning from my unhappy End …Beware of fainting-fits…Beware of swoons, Run mad as often as you chuse; but do not faint—”.

I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know it is the same with them all; they are all knocked about, and exposed...

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...