Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

I do not cough for my own amusement.

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.