An annuity is a very serious business.
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.
Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.
If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to be right.
I should not mind anything at all.
You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.
Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.
An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.
I should infinitely prefer a book...
I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I’ve done nothing useful with my life.
Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people’s feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.
It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.
You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.
It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.
No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.
Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.
That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.
I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.