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Everyone has something of the spiti that animates the artist

Curious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do.

One wouldn't wish to tempt fate

I have been run over by the speeding chariot of fate, caught up in its spiked wheels." - "I hate it when that happens," said Stephen.

Dullness it is that perverts and corrups the spirit but it is always possible to look past the dullness, and see the bright, shining heart of things

Imagination shrinks from the consequences.

A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.

She sincerely wishes success, for her new life, and intends that no failure of effort, temper, or spirits on her part will jeopardise it.

I am all or nothing

We shall live, love and be happy as mortals can be

I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.

It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.

No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

And now over there is a gentleman who should not wear tight pantaloons. You will see when he turns around. There. That is why.

Life is shockingly short to trouble about certain things.

I have striven never to betray myself

None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time

One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.

That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.

She simply cannot let go of love- and who can blame that? Is it not the hardest thing in the world to relinquish, once you have it?

Aye, so: there is love, and there is indulgence, and they may touch sometimes but they're not the same.

To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.

I love you more than I can express, or can ever hope to express

I can always forgive where I understand.

He peered gloomily into a folio of maps. 'I always think Brazil is too big.

Love is always unexpected

Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.

And what does she mean by love, anyway? People use that word and mean all sorts of things by it.

I will do what I can

Without money and without connections- I have failed you!

To assume is to presume.

A balance, I think, is needed , " Dr. Templeton said judiciously,"between the head and the heart: nothing easier to say: nothing harder to achieve.

We are always parting! It's supposed to be sweet sorrow or something, isn't it? Those poets. They'll say anything.

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

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

Really, I protest
what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

You have made him live.

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard

I should say no more. Because when we dislike someone we are always very ready to believe any ill of them

You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.

I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting

The respectable world and I are on easy terms. I ignore it when I choose, and it does likewise with me.

The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us

It is not always easy, for a woman alone.

When you are in love- everything is romantic

There are some people who like nothing better than a good, regular quarrel.

It is so important to think for yourself.

A happy marriage- a love match- is something overwhelming, and overpowering.

It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

Love is the hardest thing to grasp. You have to seize it at once, else it may be too late.

I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.

I must try to be charitable, Caroline thought: probably she doesn't mean to sound as if she is continually translating from Latin.

No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.

We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.

I found out when I went away from Wythorpe the first time in November
remember? How nice it is to rhyme, I must do it all the time.

You cannot believe everything you hear

Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

Words are only words

Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them.

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

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