Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

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

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.

I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.

Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.