My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again.