Sense and Sensibility
From Elinor
If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy
I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way
It is not everyone,’ said Elinor, ‘who has your passion for dead leaves
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.
From Marriane
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
From Edward
I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be…yours.
From Colonel Brandon
To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her
Mansfield Park
I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.
From Catherine Morland
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible
Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
From Mr. Tilney
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again
From Isabelle
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
Northanger Abbey
A sleepy conscience 