…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman’s feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have...

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

It was gratitude; gratitude, not merelyfor having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing

There are people, the more you do for them, the less they do for themselves.

There had been moments when she felt he had almost forgiven her. She would always remember those moments.

No! Thank you for thinking I am thoughtful.

Banii pot aduce fericire numai acolo unde n-o poate aduce nimic altceva. In afara de anumite inlesniri, banii nu pot oferi bucurii adevarate

Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.””And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.””And yours,” he replied...

Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid! The proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be...

They all went indoors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think capable of accommodating so many.

For though a very few hours spent in the hard labour of incessant talking will dispatch more subjects than can really be in common between any two rational creatures, yet with lovers it is different....

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

No es el tiempo ni la ocasión los que determinan la intimidad: es sólo el carácter, la disposición de las personas.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

Those who do not complain are never pitied

He [Darcy] expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man in violent love can be supposed to.

And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

Has de aprender algo de mi filosofía. Piensa sólo en el pasado cuando su recuerdo te procure placer.

Cu siguranta, nu-l ura. Nu, ura trecuse cu mult timp in urma si cam tot de atunci se nascuse senzatia de rusine pentru ca avusese fata de el un sentiment care s-ar fi putut numi...

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire… Woman...

My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.””You are mistaken,” said he gently, “that is...

The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civility, to fish there as often as he chose while he continued in the neighbourhood, offering at the same...

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...