Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

To love is to burn, to be on fire.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

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.

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.