I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.
Angry people are not always wise.
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
When once we are buried you think we are gone. But behold me immortal!
Mr. Collins was to attend them, at the request of Mr. Bennet, who was most anxious to get rid of him, and have his library to himself
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themseselves.
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation?
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.
Her in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousan...
There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison
Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.
A person who can write a long letter with ease cannot write ill.
That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.
There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.