The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.