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.
Time did not compose her.
Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?
There seemed a gulf impassable between them.