A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal...
The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. – Mr Darcy.
Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing; but I have never been in love ; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.
There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.
If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.
Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
Every savage can dance.
It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.
When I fall in love, it will be forever.
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.
One can never have too large a party.
Is not poetry the food of love?
And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
I do not cough for my own amusement.