May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am trying to make it out.' 'And what is your success?' She shook her head. 'I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth