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.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

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

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.