She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his forever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.