If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

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.

I love you. Most ardently.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts.

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

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?

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.

One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

An annuity is a very serious business.

Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

Is not poetry the food of love?

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

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.

We do not suffer by accident.

I should infinitely prefer a book.

Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

It’s been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world.

There are secrets in all families.

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.

Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

To love is to burn, to be on fire.

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.

I can always live by my pen.

A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

I am excessively diverted.

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

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.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

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.

One word from you shall silence me forever.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

Time, time will heal the wound.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Know your own happiness.

She attracted him more than he liked.

One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.

My style of writing is very different from yours.

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

I do not cough for my own amusement.

I have no talent for certainty.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.

She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

I am not romantic, you know; I never was.

A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

Every savage can dance.

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy.

Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

With a book he was regardless of time.

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.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; – it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.

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.

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

Success supposes endeavour.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

I walk: I prefer walking.

Almost anything is possible with time.

Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

When I fall in love, it will be forever.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

I will only add, God bless you.

I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

I want nothing but death.

Time will explain.

My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

The less said the better.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real.

It’s such a happiness when good people get together.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…I have loved none but you.

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

Angry people are not always wise.

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

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.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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

We are all fools in love.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading. How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book.

It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

I was quiet but I was not blind.