“But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.”

“convincing Elinor, that whatever other unpardonable folly might bring him to Cleveland, he was not brought there by intoxication.”

“With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken; and she had not quite done nothing — for she had done mischief.”

“How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his forever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.”

“How hard it is in some cases to be believed!''And how impossible in others!”

“Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.”

“That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”