Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.

Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.

Till this moment I never knew myself.