And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

She was stronger alone.

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.