To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.

[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.

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.