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

Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.

“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”