We do not look in great cities for our best morality..

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction amo….

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man..

But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give..

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at ….

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well..

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation..

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

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to….

Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it..

if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say ….

My style of writing is very diffrent from yours..

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship..

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly wh….

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent….

You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you a….

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough..

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a so….

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in t….

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of..

She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry..