Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present

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

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.