SUMAYA’s Reviews > Emma > Status Update

“Be infinitely cleverer, and not half so conceited.”

“She hoped they might now become friends again. She thought it was time to make up. Making up, indeed, would not do. She certainly had not been in the wrong, and be would never own that he had. Concession must be out of the question; but it was time to appear to forget that they had ever quarrelled”

“If I know myself, mine is an active, busy mind, with a great many independent resources. Woman's usual occupations of eye, and hand, and mind, will be as open to me then as they are now, or with no important variation. If I draw less, I shall read more; if I give up music, I shall take to carpet-work.”

“A single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else!”

“Never, never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.”

“ ‘I do so wonder, that you should not be married, or going to be married - so charming as you are.?’
She laughed, and replied:
‘My being charming, is not quite enough to induce me to marry; I must find other people charming - one other person at least.’
‘Ah, so you say, but I cannot believe it.'
‘I must see somebody very superior to any one I have seen yet,’ ”

‘One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other?’

‘Do not be overpowered by such a little tribute of admiration.’