“The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.”

“She prized the frank, the open-hearted, the eager character beyond all others. Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her still. She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.”

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”

“It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best”

“A young woman in love always looks like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief.”

“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.”

“Mr. Elliot was rational, discreet, polished, – but he was not open. There was never any burst of feeling, any warmth of indignation or delight, at the evil or good of others. This, to Anne, was a decided imperfection. Her early impressions were incurable. She prized the frank, the open-hearted, the eager character beyond all others. Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her still. She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.”