He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.

Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

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.

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.