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

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle.