It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.

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.

I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.