There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
Time did not compose her.
It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.
She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.
None but a woman can teach the science of herself.
Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.
She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.
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.
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.
Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.
Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.
They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.
How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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