Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.