The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

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

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.