I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

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.

How can I dispose of myself with it?

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.