Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.

A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.