I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.