"Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?"

"Better be without sense, than misapply it as you do."

"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a …"

"Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable, old maid! the proper sport of boys and…"

"There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves."

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

"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."

"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of th…"