Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

But the same spirits of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is more robust than woman, but he is not longer-lived; which exactly explains my view of the nature of their attachment. Nay, it would be too hard upon you, if it were otherwise. You have difficulties, and privations, and dangers enough to struggle with... It would be too hard indeed (with a faltering voice) if woman's feelings were to be added to all this!

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to wether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate to say 'Yes', she ought to say 'No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered int with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to. Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.

Everybody pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was. I detest jargon of every kind, and sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning.

Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.