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congratulate you and Mr. Vernon on being about to receive into your family the most accomplished coquette in England.
Let her think and act as she chooses, however. I have never yet found that the advice of a sister could prevent a young man’s being in love if he chose.
I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own.
the more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
was necessary to the happiness of both; for however dissimilar in temper and outward behaviour, they strongly resembled each other in that total want of talent and taste which confined their employments, unconnected with such as society produced, within a very narrow compass.
Continual engagements at home and abroad, however, supplied all the deficiencies of nature and education; supported the good spirits of Sir John, and gave exercise to the good breeding of his wife.
in winter his private balls were numerous enough for any young lady who was not suffering under the unsatiable appetite of fifteen.
The young ladies, as well as their mother, were perfectly satisfied with having two entire strangers of the party, and wished for no more.
and she was reasonable enough to allow that a man of five and thirty might well have outlived all acuteness of feeling and every exquisite power of enjoyment. She was perfectly disposed to make every allowance for the colonel’s advanced state of life which humanity required.
When is a man to be safe from such wit, if age and infirmity will not protect him?”
He may live twenty years longer. But thirty-five has nothing to do with matrimony.”
“A woman of seven and twenty,” said Marianne, after pausing a moment, “can never hope to feel or inspire affection again, and if her home be uncomfortable, or her fortune small, I can suppose that she might bring herself to submit to the offices of a nurse, for the sake of the provision and security of a wife. In his marrying such a woman therefore there would be nothing unsuitable. It would be a compact of convenience, and the world would be satisfied.
I had forgotten what a riot Sense and Sensibility is.
“I am afraid,” replied Elinor, “that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”
She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.
Marianne’s MIND could not be controlled,
“It is not every one,” said Elinor, “who has your passion for dead leaves.”
Ha!
“I did not know I contradicted any body in calling your mother ill-bred.”
He is such a charming man, that it is quite a pity he should be so grave and so dull.
— I assure you it was a great compliment if he was, for he hardly ever falls in love with any body.”
she was resolved never to mention his name again, and she should tell everybody she saw, how good-for-nothing he was.”
