“Catherine- "How I hate the sight of an umbrella!"Mrs. Allen- "They are disagreeable things to carry. I would much rather take a chair at any time.”

“[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.”

“I would much rather have been merry than wise.”

“If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.”

“Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.”

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”

“...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall.”