The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.

I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.