Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.

And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!

How very awkward places we do choose in which to propose to one another!' remarked Mr. Beaumaris

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!

You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.