Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

I think I must admit so fair a guest when it asks entrance to my heart.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses.

I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!

Prodigious was the amount of life I lived that morning.