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I dearly love a laugh.

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But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not be overlooked. It was gratitude. -- Gratitude, not...more

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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that...more

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Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country.

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I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love

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However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were.” “And so ended his affection,” said Elizabeth impatiently. “There has been many a one...more

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She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever feeling a dislike against him, that ...more

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Every line, every word was -- in the hackneyed metaphor which their dear writer, were she here, would forbid -- a dagger to my heart. To know that Mar...more

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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

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I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do not torture me so. Oh! how easy for ...more

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Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

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I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.

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Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room t...more

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What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at ...more