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.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

You have delighted us long enough.

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.