You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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.
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.
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
My idea of good company...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 not goo...
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
What are men to rocks and mountains?
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
the rent here may be low but i believe we have it on very hard terms --sense & sensibility
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 on the right side; if you d...
Depend upon it you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then if one...
Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings could accomplish, or as his seemed able to bear, for he was too much affected to renew the subject...
I suspect that in this comprehensive and (may I say) commonplace censure, you are not judging from yourself, but from prejudiced persons, whose opinions you have been in the habit of hearing. It is im...
I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong.
I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.
You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this...
Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.