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.

Common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood’s romantic delicacy.

Sense will always have attractions for me.

Može li iko upoznati nečiju narav u Batu, ili na kojem drugom javnom mestu… Sve je to ništavno; ne može se tako ništa znati. Samo kada čovek vidi ženu u njenom domu, među njenim prijateljima,...

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

…And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she ever would submit to… She was...

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had...

They danced again, and when the assembly closed, parted, on the lady’s side at least, with a strong inclination for continuing the acquaintance. Whether she thought of him so much while she drank her warm...

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable!

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble

Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

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

I have no right to give my opinion,” said Wickham, “as to his being agreeable or otherwise. I am not qualified to form one. I have known him too long and too well to be...

I don’t approve of surprises. The pleasure is never enhanced and the inconvenience is considerable.

A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.

He may have as strong a sense of what would be right, as you can have, without being so equal under particular circumstances to act up to it.””Then, it would not be so strong a...

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in...

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

I cannot say much for this Monarch’s Sense–Nor would I if I could, for he was a Lancastrian. I suppose you know all about the Wars between him and the Duke of York who was...

And here is my sweet little Annamaria,’ she added, tenderly caressing a little girl of three years old, who had not made a noise for the last two minutes; ‘And she is always so gentle...

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world...

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…I have loved none but you.

Her tears fell abundantly–but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma’s eyes–and she listened to her and tried to console her with all her heart...

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

With this answer Elizabeth was forced to be content; but her own opinion continued the same, and she left disappointed and sorry. It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling...

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

And such is your definition of matrimony and dancing. Taken in that light, certainly their resemblance is not striking; but I think I could place them in such a view. You will allow that in...

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation. All have been, or at least all have believed...

That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.