You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject forever.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Angry people are not always wise.
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.
I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
Till this moment I never knew myself.
We are all fools in love.
You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Not all of us can afford to be romantic.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
My good opinion once lost is lost forever.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
你太慷慨了，不会玩弄我。如果你的感情还和去年四月一样，请立即告诉我。我的感情和愿望没有改变，但你的一句话就会让我永远沉默。
我敢说，没有什么比阅读更令人愉悦了！人们对任何事物的厌倦都比不上一本书来得慢。
我一生都是一个自私的人，虽然原则上并非如此，但行动上却是。