My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel in some degree as you do-who have not at least been given a taste for nature in early life. They lose a great deal.

Men of sense do not want silly wives.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

Those who tell their own story you know must be listened to with caution.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

How little the general report of any one ought to be credited, since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander.

I was simple enough to think, that because my faith was plighted to another, there could be no danger in my being with you; and that the consciousness of my engagement was to keep my heart as safe and sacred as my honour.

But she sat down, resolving within herself to draw no limits in future to the impudence of an impudent man.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

Emma had no opportunity of speaking to Mr. Knightley till after supper; but, when they were all in the ballroom again, her eyes invited him irresistibly to come to her and be thanked.

You want nothing, but patience or give it a more fascinating name. Call it hope.

Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling.

There was a great deal of good sense in all this; but there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.