I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

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?

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . .

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

When money is once parted with, it can never return.

Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?