"Sense and Sensibility" Quotes

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

The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate.

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

Elinor saw, and pitied her for, the neglect of abilities which education might have rendered so respectable.

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone.

We have neither of us anything to tell; you, because you do not communicate, and I, because I conceal nothing.

I am not romantic, you know; I never was. I ask only a comfortable home.

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best.

But to speak the truth, I am not disposed to be silent.