"Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.”

“She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.”

“I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.”

“Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.”

“Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.”

“Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.”

“It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.”

“He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.”

“We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.”