Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an...

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something...

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.

It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.

If it was not for the entail I should not mind it.’ `What should not you mind?’ `I should not mind anything at all.’ `Let us be thankful that you are preserved from a state...

I have heard that something very shocking indeed will soon come out in London.

Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.

I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of...

I have observed…in the course of my life, that if things are going outwardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

Why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it...

… and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily...

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world....

By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is...

speaks very truthfully. … I loved the fact that it felt so honest. I respond to scripts regardless of where or when they’re set; for me, it’s about whether the characters ring true.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion…

You may only call me “Mrs. Darcy”… when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.

Pride,” observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, “is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it it very common indeed;...

my idea of good company.. is the company of clever, well-informed people. who have a great deal of conversation.

You judge very properly, and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are...

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

I declare, there is no enjoyment like reading.

You men have none of you any hearts.”If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection would naturally dictate;—and among the merits and the happiness of Elinor and Marianne, let it not be ranked as the least considerable,...

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 to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always...

I understand you.—You do not suppose that I have ever felt much.—For four months, Marianne, I have had all this hanging on my mind, without being at liberty to speak of it to a single...

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I’ve had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to...

mais je crois qu’elle aurait tout autant de chances d’être heureuse, si elle épousait Mr. Bingley demain que si elle se met à étudier son caractère pendant une année entière ; car le bonheur en ménage...

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

I admire all my three sons-in-law highly. Wickham, perhaps is my favourite; but I think I shall like your husband quite as well as Jane’s.

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.

If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

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.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish...