I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.
She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
What strange creatures brothers are!
I am excessively diverted.
I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.
Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.
I will only add, God bless you.
Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.
How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman’s feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.