“I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.”

“Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it.”

“I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.”

“I will do what I can”

“I have striven never to betray myself”

“The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.”

“Perhaps grown women are beings of a good deal more complexity than cats”