If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth’s change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise–if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what...

She was suddenly roused by the sound of the door-bell, and her spirits were a little fluttered by the idea of its being Colonel Fitzwilliam himself, who had once before called late in the evening,...

He understands muslin

Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children.

My dearest Emma,” said he, “for dearest you will always be, whatever the event of this hour’s conversation, my dearest, most beloved Emma — tell me at once. Say ‘No,’ if it is to be...

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which...

The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the past and the present, the employment of mind and...

I beg your pardon; one knows exactly what to think.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

But think no more of the letter. The feelings of the person who wrote, and the person who received it, are now so widely different from what they were then, that every unpleasant circumstance attending...

Her [Mrs Croft’s] manners were open, easy, and decided, like one who had no distrust of herself, and no doubts of what to do; without any approach to coarseness, however, or any want of good...

I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations; but still they cannot be equals.” (10)

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations...

An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour.

sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning

The house seemed to have all the comforts of little Children, dirt and litter.

I’m very fond of experimental housekeeping.

For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself.

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot’s character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man....

Had Elizabeth’s opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing picture of conjugal felicity or domestic comfort.

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

Well, evil to some is always good to others.

Eleanor went to her room “where she was free to think and be wretched.

Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody’s character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs...

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

What a revolution in her ideas!

Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society . . .

It was not very wonderful that Catherine . . . should prefer cricket, base ball . . . to books.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of...

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

He is blinded and nothing will open his eyes,nothing can,after having had truths so long before him in vain.–He will marry her and poor and miserable.God grant that her influence do not make him cease...

Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unalterable Love, in which we were secure from being interrupted, by intruding and disagreeable Visistors, as Augustus and Sophia had...

Well, well,” said he, “do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end of them.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins’] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences.

Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?”- Elizabeth Bennet

…and their marriage, instead of depriving her of one friend, secured her two.

You will think me rhapsodizing; but when I am out of doors, especially when I am sitting out of doors, I am very apt to get into this sort of wondering strain. One cannot fix...

Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing — fortifying and bracing — seemingly just as was wanted...

She was stronger alone…

She hated herself more than she could express.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.