You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.
Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.
Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.
Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.
His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.
Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. – Marianne Dashwood.
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.
Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.
From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.
But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.
I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.
I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.
She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.
We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.