They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase
of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and
resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.
Sense and Sensibility
About Marianne Dashwood and her mother,
Chapter 1. |
People always live forever when there is an annuity to be
paid them.
Sense and Sensibility
Mrs. John Dashwood (Fanny), Chapter 2. |
An annuity is a very serious business.
Sense and Sensibility
Mrs. John Dashwood, Chapter 2. |
He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to
make them pleasing. He was too diffident to do justice to himself;
but when his natural shyness was overcome, his behaviour gave
every indication of an open, affectionate heart.
Sense and Sensibility
About Edward Ferrars, Chapter 3. |
On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by
way of provision for discourse.
Sense and Sensibility
Chapter 6. |
In hastily forming and giving his opinion of other people,
in sacrificing general politeness to the enjoyment of undivided
attention where his heart is engaged, and in slighting too easily
the forms of worldly propriety, he displayed a want of caution
which Elinor could not approve.
Sense and Sensibility
Elinor Dashwood's view of Willoughby, Chapter
10. |
Sense will always have attractions for me.
Sense and Sensibility
Elinor, Chapter 10. |
When he was present she had no eyes for anyone else. Everything
he did was right. Everything he said was clever. If their evenings
at the Park were concluded with cards, he cheated himself and
all the rest of the party to get her a good hand. If dancing
formed the amusement of the night, they were partners for half
the time; and when obliged to separate for a couple of dances,
were careful to stand together, and scarcely spoke a word to
anybody else. Such conduct made them, of course, most exceedingly
laughed at; but ridicule could not shame, and seemed hardly
to provoke them.
Sense and Sensibility
About Marianne and Willoughby, Chapter
11. |
There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young
mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception
of more general opinions.
Sense and Sensibility
Colonel Brandon, Chapter 11. |
When the romantic refinements of a young mind are obliged
to give way, how frequently are they succeeded by such opinions
as are but too common and too dangerous!
Sense and Sensibility
Colonel Brandon, Chapter 11. |
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy
it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to
make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days
are more than enough for others.
Sense and Sensibility
Marianne, Chapter 12. |
The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its
propriety.
Sense and Sensibility
Elinor, Chapter 13. |
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not
likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
Sense and Sensibility
Marianne, Chapter 17. |
A fond mother ... in pursuit of praise for her children, the
most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous;
her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow anything.
Sense and Sensibility
Chapter 21. |
It was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however
trivial the occasion; and upon Elinor therefore the whole task
of telling lies when politeness required it, always fell.
Sense and Sensibility
About Marianne's coldness and silence to
the Misses Steel, Chapter 21. |
She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported
her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness
as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it
was possible for them to be.
Sense and Sensibility
Describing Elinor, Chapter 23. |
Death ... a melancholy and shocking extremity.
Sense and Sensibility
Elinor, Chapter 24. |
I wish with all my soul his wife may plague his heart out.
Sense and Sensibility
Mrs. Jennings on Willoughby's engagement
to Miss Grey, Chapter 30. |
When a young man, be he who he will, comes and makes love
to a pretty girl, and promises marriage, he has no business
to fly off from his word, only because he grows poor, and a
richer girl is ready to have him. Why don't he, in such a case,
sell his horses, let his house, turn off his servants, and make
a thorough reform at once.
Sense and Sensibility
Mrs. Jennings, Chapter 30. |
Nothing in the way of pleasure can ever be given up by the
young men of this age.
Sense and Sensibility
Mrs. Jennings, Chapter 30. |
Elinor had not needed ... to be assured of the injustice to
which her sister was often led in her opinion of others, by
the irritable refinement of her own mind, and the too great
importance placed by her on the delicacies of a strong sensibility
and the graces of a polished manner. Like half the rest of the
world, if more than half there be that are clever and good,
Marianne, with excellent abilities and an excellent disposition,
was neither reasonable nor candid. She expected from other people
the same opinions and feelings as her own, and she judged of
their motives by the immediate effect of their actions on herself.
Sense and Sensibility
Chapter 31. |
A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience
in his intrusion on that of others.
Sense and Sensibility
Marianne, Chapter 31. |
Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better
preparation for death; and that was given.
Sense and Sensibility
Colonel Brandon about his foster daughter
Miss Williams who was seduced by Willoughby and left alone,
penniless and pregnant, Chapter 31. |
She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily
than she had felt the loss of his heart.
Sense and Sensibility
Marianne, Chapter 32. |
A person and face, of strong, natural, sterling insignificance,
though adorned in the first style of fashion.
Sense and Sensibility
The Dashwood sisters encounter Robert Ferrar
in a jewelers, Chapter 33. |
There was a kind of cold-hearted selfishness on both sides,
which mutually attracted them; and they sympathized with each
other in an insipid propriety of demeanour, and a general want
of understanding.
Sense and Sensibility
About Lady Middleton and Mrs. John Dashwood,
Chapter 34. |
Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses,
no less than in theirs.
Sense and Sensibility
Chapter 37. |
The world had made him extravagant and vain - extravagance
and vanity had made him cold-hearted and selfish. Vanity, while
seeking its own guilty triumph at the expense of another, had
involved him in a real attachment, which extravagance, or at
least its offspring necessity, had required to be sacrificed.
Each faulty propensity in leading him to evil, had led him likewise
to punishment.
Sense and Sensibility.
Sense and Sensibility
Elinor's thoughts on Willoughby, Chapter
44. |
His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular,
his ruling principle.
Sense and Sensibility
Elinor on Willoughby, to Marianne, Chapter
47. |
Elinor now found the difference between the expectation of
an unpleasant event, however certain the mind may be told to
consider it, and certainty itself. She now found that, in spite
of herself, she had always admitted a hope, while Edward remained
single, that something would occur to prevent his marrying Lucy;
that some resolution of his own, some mediation of friends,
or some more eligible opportunity of establishment for the lady,
would arise to assist the happiness of all. But he was now married;
and she condemned her heart for the lurking flattery which so
much heightened the pain of the intelligence.
Sense and Sensibility
Elinor is miserable after Lucy tells her
servant she has married Edward the man Elinor loves, Chapter
48. |
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