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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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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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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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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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If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor ...more

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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

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Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civ...more

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But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

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Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

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For though a very few hours spent in the hard labour of incessant talking will dispatch more subjects than can really be in common between any two rat...more