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I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.
“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”
And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.
A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.
I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.
Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.
I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!
Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.
And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.
Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.
Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.
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.
Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.
I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.
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.
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?
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.
A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.
Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on.
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.
The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.
it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.
Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.
I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.
I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.
Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.
There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.
I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.
They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.