Without music, life would be a blank to me.
Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.
I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment
The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his.
I have none of the usual inducements of women to marry. Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.
Time, you may be sure, will make one or the other of us think differently; and, in the meanwhile, we need not talk much on the subject.
A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.
A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.
A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid! The proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.
But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.
A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper.
Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.
Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of her drawingup at various times of books that she meant to read regularly through—and very good lists they were—very well chosen, and very ne...
Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
He may have as strong a sense of what would be right, as you can have, without being so equal under particular circumstances to act up to it." "Then, it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal ...
I do not find myself making any use of the word ," said she. — "In not one of all my clever replies, my delicate negatives, is there any allusion to making a sacrifice. I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
