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.
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.
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.