1 "Little Raphael," as her sisters called her, had a decided talent for drawing, and was never so happy as when copying flowers, designing fairies, or illustrating stories with queer specimens of art.
2 Boys are trying enough to human patience, goodness knows, but girls are infinitely more so, especially to nervous gentlemen with tyrannical tempers and no more talent for teaching than Dr. Blimber.
3 Yes, he has had an excellent education, and has much talent.
4 So did mine, but I proved to her that I had talent by taking a few lessons privately, and then she was quite willing I should go on.
5 It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
6 The girls do care for me, and I for them, and there's a great deal of kindness and sense and talent among them, in spite of what you call fashionable nonsense.
7 That's just why, because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so.
8 I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.
9 You judge very properly," said Mr. Bennet, "and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy.
10 I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.
11 For my own part, I could not avoid reflecting how universally this talent was spread, of drawing lectures in morality, or indeed rather matter of discontent and repining, from the quarrels we raise with nature.
12 And one thing I might depend upon, that they would certainly tell me the truth, for lying was a talent of no use in the lower world.
13 I know very well, how little reputation is to be got by writings which require neither genius nor learning, nor indeed any other talent, except a good memory, or an exact journal.
14 He was a boy of singular talent and fancy.
15 There only remained a resolution to return to my ancient studies and to devote myself to a science for which I believed myself to possess a natural talent.