Success supposes endeavour.

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.

I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

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.