Tacking on the kiss at the end made it too romantic, much more like a Victorian or 20th-century story, rather than the early 19th-century story that it really is. |
The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on; that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman's worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent. |
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour. |
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love |
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. |
The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. |
The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for. |
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. |
The sooner every party breaks up the better. |
The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope |
There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them. |
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. |
There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to |
There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to |
There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. |