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 am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.