47 quotes found
“It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.”
“she had no resources for solitude”
“To exemplify, -a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn. Not a puncture, not a weak spot any where. -This nut... while so many of its bre...”
“I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know it is the same with them all; they are all knocked about, and exposed to every climate, and every ...”
“There had been moments when she felt he had almost forgiven her. She would always remember those moments.”
“Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man is refused, till he offers.”
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man...”
