Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. |
Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society . . . |
Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his MAKING friends--whether he may be equally capable of RETAINING them, is less certain. |
My being charming, Harriet, is not quite enough to induce me to marry; I must find other people charming--one other person at least. |
My sore throats are always worse than anyone's. |
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. |
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. |
Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. |
Nobody is on my side, nobody takes part with me: I am cruelly used, nobody feels for my poor nerves. |
Nobody minds having what is too good for them. |
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be. |
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves. |
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. |
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. |
On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly. |