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.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.