Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.
But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.
A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison
To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.
On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.
I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.
I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet
How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.
You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.
It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.
Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.
Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.
They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.
I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.
It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.
Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.
But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.
No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.