I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.
You have delighted us long enough.
I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.
She is loveliness itself.
Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.
How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
None but a woman can teach the science of herself.
And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.
I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.
You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.
She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.
There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.
Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.
Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.
I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.