To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

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.

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.