Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.
As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people’s happiness were in his guardianship! – How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! – How much of good or evil must be done by him!
Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.
Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.
A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.
We can all begin freely – a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.
Everything nourishes what is strong already.
A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.
You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.
We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.
This was a lucky recollection – it saved her from something like regret.
I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.
I walk: I prefer walking.
She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.
This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.
If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?
Obstinate, headstrong girl!