Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.
They all went indoors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think capable of accommodating so many.
My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company." "You are mistaken," said he gently, "that is not good company; that is the best. Good compan...
...and their marriage, instead of depriving her of one friend, secured her two.
I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.
She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself.
Every body has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.
To exemplify, -a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn. Not a puncture, not a weak spot any where. -This nut... while so many of its brethren have fallen and been trodden under foot, is sti...
Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.
My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.' 'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.
Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again wit...
No one can withstand the charm of such a mystery.
...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.
An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.
There had been moments when she felt he had almost forgiven her. She would always remember those moments.
