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

The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart

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

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on.

A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.