Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

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.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.