I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.
I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
Every day confirms his belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
I am not afraid of being overpowered by the impression. It will pass away soon enough.
There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.
You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.