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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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A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

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The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the sub...more

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...it is very well worth while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it. Consider -...more

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You men have none of you any hearts.''If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

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She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−inform...more

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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickle...more

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My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good com...more

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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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Her [Mrs Croft's] manners were open, easy, and decided, like one who had no distrust of herself, and no doubts of what to do; without any approach to ...more

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But the same spirits of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is more robust than woman, but he is not longer-lived; ...more

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You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I migh...more

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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

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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. However little known the feeling...more

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There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.""And y...more