It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.
And she did what nobody thought of doing... She consulted Anne.
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
Books--oh! No. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.'I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.
Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.—I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.
What a revolution in her ideas!