Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?
I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.
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.
I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.
Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman’s love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.
Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.
One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman’s inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman’s fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.