I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.

'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.

You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.