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Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of home, by the misery...more

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Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was willing to make light of it in order to comfort her) ...more

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Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happ...more

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I pay very little regard," said Mrs. Grant, "to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only...more

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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

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I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there may be peace. You will not want to...more

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He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.

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She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the bles...more

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

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You are infinitely my superior in merit; all that I know - You have qualities which I had not supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature...more

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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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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.