Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
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.
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 can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
What are men to rocks and mountains?
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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
Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
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...
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...
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'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.
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 a...
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.
It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.