Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure
And with regard to the resentment of his family, or the indignation of the world, if the former were excited by his marrying me, it would not give me one moment's concern-- and the world in general would have too much sense to join in the scorn.
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.
Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
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.
Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.
I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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 everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence ...
Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often ...
Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing picture of conjugal felicity or domestic comfort.
Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.
He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and, though determined not to slacken as a correspondent, it was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.
--As I must therefore conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall choose to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females." --"I do assure you, sir, that I have ...
