I must have my share in the conversation.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.