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The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civility, to fish there as often as he chose while he...more

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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment

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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mis...more

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My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

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It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adhe...more

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I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica.

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She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Con...more

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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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The earliest intelligence of the travellers' safe arrival at Antigua, after a favourable voyage, was received; though not before Mrs. Norris had been ...more

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It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the l...more

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It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.

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You judge very properly, and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions ...more

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Well, well," said he, "do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end of them.

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Pride,’ observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, ‘is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I ...more