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

Angry people are not always wise.

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.

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley