“…she had no resources for solitude…”

“her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.”

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

“Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.”

“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.”

“Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.”

“She regained the street--happy in this, that though much had been forced on her against her will, though she had in fact heard the whole substance of Jane Fairfax's letter, she had been able to escape the letter itself.”