Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
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...
It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house tonight or never.
Nothing is more deceitful, said Darcy, than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
I was quiet, but I was not blind.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than eno...
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.
I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, said Darcy, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in thei...
Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, whi...
But I will not repine. It cannot last long. He will be forgot, and we shall all be as we were before.