Quotes from book

Sense and Sensibility

“Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”

“I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be… yours.”

“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness."

-Edward Ferrars”

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

“Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.”

“Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge."

-Elinor Dashwood”

“She was stronger alone…”

“But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.”

“I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.”

“It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.”

“She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.”

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

“Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion…”

“Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.”

“Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.”

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”

“Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.”

“Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.”

“A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.”