The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their prope….

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it u….

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then..

There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as stranger….

... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talk….

...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall..

I trust that absolutes have gradations..

Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, ….

Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have..

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents..

He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, thou….

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out o….

I should not mind anything at all..

The distance is nothing when one has a motive..

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery..

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit..

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy..

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickl….

Those who do not complain are never pitied..

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same m….

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world..