“What is passable in youth is detestable in later age”

“The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad,—the more glaring and disgusting any loudness, or coarseness, or awkwardness becomes. What is passable in youth is detestable in later age.”

“…for what after all is Youth and Beauty?”

“She had reached the age of seventeen, without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility, without having inspired one real passion, and without having excited even any admiration but what was very moderate and very transient.”

“Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.”

“Upon my word," said her ladyship, "you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person. Pray, what is your age?”

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