Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.