"Lady Susan" Quotes

There is exquisite pleasure in subduing an insolent spirit, in making a person predetermined to dislike acknowledge one’s superiority.

Facts are such horrid things!

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

I am fond of children (in general), but not of yours.

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

I am unused to the language of restraint.

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

I do not think I shall return to Everingham at all. I am tired to death of the place.

Let me recommend you, however, as a friend, not to give implicit confidence to all his assertions; for as to Mr. Smith, I have not complete faith in him.