No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.