“You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.”

“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”

“I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.”

“These are difficulties which you must settle for yourself. Choose your own degree of crossness. I shall press you no more.”

“[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.”

“You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.”

“..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself”