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Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to. Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their ...more

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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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There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

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...and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortles...more

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Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.

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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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Obstinate, headstrong girl!

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Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

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Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

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I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too...more

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You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!

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I dearly love a laugh.

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and somethings an indirect boast.

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My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What a...more