A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
You judge very properly, and 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 the result of previous study?
You expect me to account for opinions which you chuse to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.
We do not suffer by accident.
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
To yield readily – easily – to the persuasion of a friend is no merit with you.
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.
The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
