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.
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.
There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
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.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would h...
There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison
A person who can write a long letter with ease cannot write ill.
The politeness which she had been brought up to practice as a duty made it impossible for her to escape; while the want of that higher species of self-command, that just consideration of others, that...
It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish dis...
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous stud...