Arguments are too much like disputes.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

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.

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.