She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing...
From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.—Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last...
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquillity; and though prepared…to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free of them there.
Captain Harvile: I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which did not have something to say on women's fickleness. Anne Elliot: But they were all written by men.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.