A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.