The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

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.

Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

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

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.