The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

…Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to be so…

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance – a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering...

The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,’ said he, ‘as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I believe, than those of...

But Catherine did not know her own advantages – did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances...

Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal.

Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains? Oh! what hours of transport we shall spend! And when we do return, it shall not...

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. ”And what are you reading, Miss...

Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy

My object then,” replied Darcy, “was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen...

No,” said he, smiling, “that is no subject of regret at all. I have no pleasure in seeing my friends, unless I can believe myself fit to be seen.

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these.”- Mr. Darcy

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.