Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

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 not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.