How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.