Sense and Sensibility Quotes

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister.
"I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him."
Marianne here burst with forth with indignation:
"Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment."
Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?"
Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it."
Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it...”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility