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it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.
A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.
I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.
The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.
Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.
To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.
Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.
I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.
You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.
Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.
She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.
Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some
[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.
I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more
I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.
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.
I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.
I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.
I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.
That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.
The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing
For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.
Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.
If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?
She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.