If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.
I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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.
Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged: no harm can be done.
Affectation of candour is common enough; – one meets it every where. But to be candid without ostentation or design – to take the good of every body’s character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad – belongs to you alone.
A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.
