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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children.

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Te aseguro que no soy de las que quieren a medias. Mis sentimientos siempre son profundos y arraigados"...

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Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to ...more

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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

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...it is indeed a street of so impertinent a nature, so unfortunately connected with the great London and Oxford roads, and the principal inn of the c...more

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It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or...more

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To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of twenty-six and eighteen, is to do pretty well; and professing myself moreover convinced, that the...more

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Oh!" cried Anne eagerly, "I hope I do justice to all that is felt by you,and by those who resemble you. God forbid that I should undervaluethe warm an...more

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They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a ...more

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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth...more

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But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to ...more

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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

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She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.