Too many cooks spoil the broth

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.