Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.