36 quotes found
“I will do what I can”
“Words are only words”
“One wouldn't wish to tempt fate”
“You cannot believe everything you hear”
“I can always forgive where I understand.”
“It is so important to think for yourself.”
“People argue themselves out of their pleasures”
“The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.”
“When you are in love- everything is romantic”
“A happy marriage- a love match- is something overwhelming, and overpowering.”
“To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.”
“Dullness it is that perverts and corrups the spirit but it is always possible to look past the dullness, and see the bright, shining heart of things”
“That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.”
“You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.”
“Without money and without connections- I have failed you!”
“I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.”
“Imagination shrinks from the consequences.”
“None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time”
“It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard”
“Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion”
“No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.”
“Perhaps grown women are beings of a good deal more complexity than cats”
“I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.”
