I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.