But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.