The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading. How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book.
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
Angry people are not always wise.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
What are men to rocks and mountains?
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of.
We are all fools in love.
It is not everyone,? said Elinor, ’who has your passion for dead leaves.
But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
Badly done, Emma!
Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
The last few hours were certainly very painful,” replied Anne: “but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-.