I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

She is loveliness itself.

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

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt