“My being charming…is not quite enough to induce me to marry. I must find other people charming - one other person at least.”

“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest with themselves.”

“He admires as a lover, not as a connoisseur. To satisfy me, those characters must be united. I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter into all my feelings: the same books, the same music must charm us both.”

“I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.”

“No one can withstand the charm of such a mystery.”

“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.”

“It requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.”