Nothing is more deceitful, than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure, and over every new novel to talk in threadbare strains of the trash with which the press now groans. Let us not desert one another; we are an injured body.
It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel, in some degree, as you do; who have not, at least, been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a great deal.
Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged: no harm can be done.
Affectation of candour is common enough; – one meets it every where. But to be candid without ostentation or design – to take the good of every body’s character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad – belongs to you alone.
A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
