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Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

Let me thank you again and again, in the name of all my family, for that generous compassion which induced you to take so much trouble, and bear so many mortifications, for the sake of discovering them.” “If you will thank me,” he replied, “let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on, I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe I thought only of you.” Elizabeth.

I have read your book, and I disapprove.

Book Quotes

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

Firsts Quotes

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

A Woman never looks better than on horseback.

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I’ve done nothing useful with my life.

Book Quotes

The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

The indirect boast; for you are really proud of your defects in writing, because you consider them as proceeding from a rapidity of thought and carelessness of execution, which, if not estimable, you think at least highly interesting. The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

When money is once parted with, it can never return.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

We are told to “despair of nothing we would attain,” as “unwearied diligence our point would gain.

How can you contrive to write so even?

Manners is what holds a society together. At bottom, propriety is concern for other people. When that goes out the window, the gates of hell are shortly opened and ignorance is King.

It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

One cannot fix one’s eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people’s feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon, for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like.

Women are the only correspondents to be depended on.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

I trust that absolutes have gradations.