"

The politeness which she had been brought up to practice as a duty made it impossible for her to escape; while the want of that higher species of self...more

"

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to ...more

"

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

"

Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your e...more

"

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

"

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking ...more

"

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty f...more

"

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

"

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

"

She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she e...more

"

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adhe...more

"

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

"

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

"

Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.

"

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.