He would look for her- he would find her out long before the evening were over- and at present, perhaps, it was as to be asunder. She was in need of a little interval for recollection.
Of course i love her, but there are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby. She would have been ashamed to look her family in the face next morning, had she not risen from her bed in more need of repose than when she lay down in it.
You know that men can love forever. Please belive that my love could never end.
My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.
The far and the near must be relative, and depend on many varying circumstances.
To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others.
But while the imaginations of other people will carry them away to form wrong judgements of our conduct, and to decide on it by slight appearances, one’s happiness must in some measure be always at the mercy of chance.
What did she say? Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does.
She’s a great reader and takes pleasure in nothing else.
In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free from them there.
There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil – a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.
No more have I,” said Mr. Bennet; “and I am glad to find that you do not depend on her serving you.
Aye, so it is,” cried her mother, “and Mrs. Long does not come back till the day before; so it will be impossible for her to introduce him, for she will not know him herself.
I am glad I have done being in love with him.
He looks miserable poor soul!
All badinage apart, I don’t think you or I very likely to lose our gaiety or our peace of mind for any male creature breathing.
The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the past and the present, the employment of mind and dissipation of unpleasant ideas which only reading could produce made her thankfully turn to a book.
Elizabeth received them with all the forbearance of civility.
Do not you feel a great inclination, Miss Bennet, to seize such an opportunity of dancing a reel?