Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.