Consideration and Esteem surely follow command of Language as Admiration waits on Beauty.

As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

How could you begin?' said she. ‘I can comprehend your going on when you had once made a beginning, but what could set you off in the first place?' ‘I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which had laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine...

As far as I have had opportunity of judging, it appears to me that the usual style of letter-writing among women is faultless, except in three particulars." "And what are they?" "A general deficiency of subject, a total inattention to stops, and a very frequent ignorance of grammar.

Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distress, no less than in theirs.

Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was agitation, pain, pleasure, a something between delight and misery.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

A likeness pleases every body.

A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

That is a compliment which gives me no pleasure.

I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love.