Book: Emma

It is much better to choose than to be elected, to evoke gratitude, and not to feel it.

Man will never understand how this woman may refuse to marry. A man always imagines a woman ready to follow anyone who will make her offer.

- A success? - said Mr. Knightley. Can't understand why you chose that word. Success involves effort. If you really have given the last four years efforts to the marriage, it was done extraordinarily carefully and subtly. Decent job mind of the young girl! But if, as I am inclined to suspect, the device of this marriage, resorting to your expression was only in the fact that you conceived that in a moment of idleness I said to myself: "But glorious it would be, I think, for miss Taylor if Mr. Weston were to marry her," and after repeating it to myself from time to time, then why are you talking about success? What is your merit? What you vain? You struck a good guess, and there's nothing to talk about.

Well if you have not been courting Yes, a prophecy, and that is just the trouble: that no prophesied, it all comes true.

It is at one and the same time, I was in a room with a woman that just got married with a woman that wanted to marry, and the woman he wanted to marry.

Their external composure, almost bordering on indifference, she hid genuine affection, for the sake of the other, both were ready for anything.

Only then you can make the right judgment about a woman when you see her at home in her familiar surroundings, such as it is always. Without this, only one guessing Yes chance, and for the most part - ill-will. How many men based on superficial acquaintance bound himself and repented the rest of his life!

... they pay money for it. It contributes a lot of serviceable work. Society pays for services and, therefore, has a right to expect honesty.

A lively mind and celebrate the moment find something to occupy and satisfied with a little.

... From scarcity of resources often lacking in the soul and spoils the temper. People who barely make ends meet and inevitably spend their lives in a very closed and, for the most part, low society, different, mainly, avarice and anger.

A smart man does not want to marry a fool.

It is, of course, was right, and he, though he was wrong, would never in fact confessed.

... stupid is not stupid when it is without shame, in full view of everyone makes stupid people.

The secrecy is reliability, but there is no appeal. It is impossible to fall in love with a secretive man.