Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.
I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.
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.
A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.
That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.
Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.
Know your own happiness.
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.
For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?
but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.
The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!
Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.
How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.
We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.
In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.
Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.
Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.
A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one will love me, when I shall give my whole heart to the man whi gives ne his; neanwhile, U will suffer in silence and keep my love as a reward for him who shall set me free.
It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.
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 cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.
You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.
Arguments are too much like disputes.
Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless - one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her.
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.
She is loveliness itself.
You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder...
It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.
When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.
And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.
The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
I walk: I prefer walking.
To love is to burn, to be on fire.
I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love
Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything.
Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.
She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.
It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.
I should infinitely prefer a book.
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
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−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.
