…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.

When I fall in love, it will be forever.

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for having been a valetudinarian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though everywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time.