Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
Heaven forbid! – That would be the greatest misfortune of all! – To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! – Do not wish me such an evil.
I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love.
I use the verb ‘to torment,’ as I observed to be your own method, instead of ‘to instruct,’ supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.
When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other’s ultimate comfort.
I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.
What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?
Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.
Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again.
But Catherine did not know her own advantages – did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.
It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.
Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.
I do not find it easy to talk to people I don’t know.
He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance...
Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.