All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!
Grant us grace Almighty Father so to pray as to deserve to be heard.
But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state.
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of...
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?For the liveliness of your mind, I did.
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.
But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
...for to be sunk, though but for an hour in your esteem is a humiliation to which I know not how to submit. -Susan
The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the past and the present, the employment of mind and...