Occupation: Novelist Birth: December 16, 1775 Death: July 18, 1817
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more..
My heart is, and always will be, yours..
Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person….
A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number..
..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine..
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….
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid..
Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give..
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading..
A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her..
Beware how you give your heart..
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body..
She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous..
my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me..
How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!.
The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no mor….
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels..
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?.
You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it..
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..