Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

Where there is a wish to please, one ought to overlook, and one does overlook a great deal.

I was quiet, but I was not blind.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

There was a great deal of good sense in all this; but there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.