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

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

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.