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

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

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

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

Angry people are not always wise.

You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.