"We must not be so ready to..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.”

“Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.”

“Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare.”

“Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.”

“Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.”

“A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.”

“I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.”

“Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.”

“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.”