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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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Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was willing to make light of it in order to comfort her) ...more

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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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Much was said, and much was ate, and all went well.

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Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children.

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Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to ...more

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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

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...it is indeed a street of so impertinent a nature, so unfortunately connected with the great London and Oxford roads, and the principal inn of the c...more

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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

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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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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth...more

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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

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I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know it is the same with them all; they are all knocked ...more

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All the privilege I claim for my own sex, is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.