my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.

I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

Time, time will heal the wound.