Marianne could never love by halves.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older.
It was contrary to every doctrine of hers that difference of fortune should keep any couple asunder who were attracted by resemblance of disposition;.
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 all human characters, and of the little dependence.
Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society;.
Every emendation of Anne’s had been on the side of honesty against importance. She wanted more vigorous measures, a more complete reformation, a quicker release from debt, a much higher tone of indifference for everything but justice and equity.
This violent oppression of spirits continued the whole evening. She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.
Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world. Every savage can dance.
The more I see the world, most dislike, and the time confirms my belief in the inconsistency of human nature and how little can one trust the appearances of goodness or intelligence.
I cannot intend anything which it must be so completely beyond my power to command.
That would be the greatest misfortune of all! To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate!
She was, in fact, beginning very much to wonder that she had ever thought him pleasing at all; and his sight was so inseparably connected with some very disagreeable feelings, that, except in a moral light, as a penance, a lesson, a source of profitable humiliation to her own mind, she would have.
A fortunate chance had recommended him to Lady Catherine de Bourgh when the living of Hunsford was vacant; and the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.
I have often thought them the worst of the two,” replied he coolly. “Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Bennet would have been very miserable;.
It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel in some degree as you do-who have not at least been given a taste for nature in early life. They lose a great deal.
I do so wonder, Miss Woodhouse, that you should not be married, or going to be married! so charming as you are!
Grandeur I detest.
If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.“ – Mr. Darcy.
This was his plan of amends – of atonement – for inheriting their father’s estate;.