You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.

You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.