“No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.”

“People will think you're courting me.''Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women.”

“You should be thankful that dark colors suit you. Not everyone wears black well.""Why, Lady Olivia, is that a compliment?""Not so much as a compliment to you as an insult to everyone else," she assured him."Thanks heaven for that. I don't think I would know how to conduct myself in a world in which you offered compliments.”

“It was so strange how someone could love another person so much and so well but still not understand what made her happy.”

“Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.”

“I didn't think I should die but I did not know how I would Live.”

“Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.”