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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

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There is no other enjoyment like reading

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With a book he was regardless of time.

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The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the...more

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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

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It's a truth universally acknowledged...

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but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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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 f...more

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I...more

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[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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Without music, life would be a blank to me.

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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

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But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

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Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

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Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.