We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.
We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.
You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you. are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;- if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.
Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?
But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.
He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.
I do not cough for my own amusement.
If you are not so compassionate as to dine to-day with Louisa and me, we shall be in danger of hating each other for the rest of our lives, for a whole day's tête-à-tête between two women can never end without a quarrel.
Maybe it's that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.
No lace. No lace, Mrs. Bennett, I beg you!
The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.
We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.
You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.
Affectation of candour is common enough-one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design-to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad-belongs to you alone.
Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.
He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance..
I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.
If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.
Miss Bennet was therefore established as a sweet girl, and their brother felt authorized by such a commendation to think of her as he chose.
Oh hang kitty; what has she to do with it? Come, be quick. Be quick. Where is your sash?
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.
Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last
He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.
In nine cases out of ten a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.
Oh! if that is all, I have a very poor opinion of young men who live in Derbyshire; and their intimate friends who live in Hertfordshire are not much better. I am sick of them all. Thank Heaven! I am going tommorow where I shall find a man who has not one agreeable quality, who has neither manner nor sense to recommend him. Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.
An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.
I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
Indeed, sir, I have not the least intention of dancing. I entreat you not to suppose that I moved this way in order to beg for a partner.
Miss Darcy was tall and on a larger scale than Elizabeth and though little more than sixteen her figure was formed and her appearance womanly and graceful. She was less handsome than her brother but there was sense and good humour in her face and her manners were perfectly unassuming and gentle. Elizabeth who had expected to find in her as acute and unembarrassed an observer as ever Mr. Darcy had been was much relieved by discerning such different feelings.
Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!
There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all BEGIN freely--a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement. In nine cases out of ten a women had better show MORE affection than she feels. Bingley likes your sister undoubtedly; but he may never do more than like her, if she does not help him on.
What are men to rocks and mountains?
You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.
And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.
Do not you feel a great inclination, Miss Bennet, to seize such an opportunity of dancing a reel?
Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding- certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.
It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.
Money is the best recipe for happiness.
Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
There seemed a gulf impassable between them.
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