My first displays the wealth and pomp of kings,
Lords of the earth! Their luxury and ease.
Another view of man, my second brings,
Behold him there, the monarch of the seas!
But ah! United, what reverse we have!
Man's boasted power and freedom, all are flown;
Lord of the earth and sea, he bends a slave,
And woman, lovely woman, reigns alone.
Thy ready wit the word will soon supply,
May its approval beam in that soft eye!
Emma to Mr. Knightly:
"And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess?"
"Harriet Smith was the natural daughter of somebody"
Emma to Harriet Smith:
"You might not see one in a hundred with gentleman so plainly written as in Mr. Knightly."
"This man is almost too gallant to be in love, thought Emma (of Mr. Elton)"
Mr. Knightly to Emma:
"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk
about it more.But you know what I am.
You hear nothing but truth from me.
I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have
borne
it as no other woman in England would have borne it."
"Better be without sense, than misapply it as you do."
"Men of sense, whatever you chuse to say, do not want silly wives."
Mr. Elton to Emma:
"Oh! Miss Woodhouse! who can think of Miss Smith,
when Miss Woodhouse is near."
Miss Smith to Emma:
"Miss Woodhouse, as you will not give med your opinion,
I must do as well as I can myself; and I
have now quite
determined, and really almost made up my mind - to refuse
Mr. Martin.
Do you think I am right?" "
Emma's says after meeting Mrs. Elton:
Actually to discover that Mr. Knightly is a gentleman!
I doubt wether he will return the compliment, and discover her to be a lady"
Miss Bates to Emma:
"....I shall be sure to say three dull things as soon as ever
I open my mouth, shant I?
..Do not you all think I shall?"
Emma to Miss Bates:
"Ah! ma'am, but there may be a difficulty. Pardon me, but
you will be limited as to numbers
- only three at once."
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in
possession of a good fortune
Mrs. Bennet to Mr. Bennet:
Mr. Bingley to Mr. Darcy:
Miss Lucas to Lizzy:
Mr. Darcy:
Eliza Bennet:
Mr. Darcy:
Eliza. Bennet:
Mrs. Bennet:
To his wife he was very little otherwise indebted, than as her
ignorance and folly had contributed to his amusement."
Mr. Bennet to Lizzy:
"Their eyes instantly met,
and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush."
Mr. Darcy:
Mr. Bennet to Kitty Bennet:
PERSUASION
"Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough,
for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly anybody to love."
"You, who have not a mothers feeling, are a great deal the properest person."
"Everybody is always supposing that I am not a good walker"
Louisa Musgrove to Capt. Wentworth:
Capt. Wentworth:
Sir Walter about Admiral Croft:
Letter from Captein Wentworth to Miss Anne Elliot:
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
"It would be an excellent match, for he was rich and she was handsome."
Willoughby to the Miss Dashwoods:
Willoughby to Elinor Dashwood:
Mrs. Jennings to Mr. Palmer:
Mrs. Palmer to Elinor Dashwood (about Willoughby):
"Shyness is only the effect og a sense of inferiority in some way or other."
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must be in want of a wife."
"You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my
poor nerves."
Mr. Bennet:
"You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect
for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have
heard you
mention them with consideration these twenty years at least."
"I would not be so fastidious as you are for a kingdom!"
"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."
"My mind was more aggreable engaged. I have been meditating on
the very great pleasures which
a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestowe."
...
"In vain have I struggled. It will never do. My feelings will
not be repressed.
You must allow me to tell you how ardently
I admire and love you."
"You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you supposed that the mode
of your declaration atfected me in
any other way, than as it
spared the concern which I might have felt in
refusing you,
had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner."
...
"You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any
possible way that would have tempted
me to accept it."
"You have said quite enough, madam. I perfectly comprehend
your feelings, and have now only to be
ashamed of what my own
have been. Forgive med for having taken up so much of your
time,
and accept my best wishes for your health and happines."
"One has got all the goodness,
and the other alle the appearance of it."
"Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart;
and then he will be sorry for what he has done."
"An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do."
"For it is many months since I have considered her as one of the
handsomest women of my acquaintance."
"You go to Brighton. I would not trust you so near it as Eastbourne
for fifty pounds.
No, Kitty, I have at last learnt to be coutious, and you will feel
the effects of it.
No officer is ever to enter my house again, nor even to pass through
the village. Balls will be absolutely prohibited, unless you stand up
with one of your sisters."
........"Well, well. Do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good
girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end
of them."
Mary Musgrove to Anne Elliot:
"Dear me! What can you possibly have to do?"
"If I loved a man as she loves the Admiral I would always be with him, nothing
should ever separate us, and I would rather be overturned by him,
than driven safely by anybody else."
"..but if Anne will stay, no one so proper, so capable as Anne."
"Gout and decreptitude! Poor old gentleman."
"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such
means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half
agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious
feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart
even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years
and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman,
that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.
Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but
never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you
alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to
have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days,
would I have read your feelings, as I think you muyst have penetrated
mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something
which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish
the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too
good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do
believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men.
Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in
F. W.
I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or
follow your party , as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be
enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening
or never."
Marianne Dashwood about Col. Brandon:
"and with me a flannel-waistcoat is invariabley connected with aches, cramps,
rheumatisms,
and every species of ailment that can affect the old end the feeble."
"Brandon is just the kind of man whom everybody speaks well of, and nobody cares about,
whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to."
"In defence of your protégé, you can even be saucy."
"Ay, you may abuse me as you please," said the good-natured old
lady; "you have taken Charlotte off my hands, and cannot give her back
again. So there I have the whip hand of you."
"Oh dear, yes; I know him extremely well," replied Mrs. Palmer;-
"not that I ever spoke to him, indeed; but I have seen him for ever in
town.
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