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.