The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.Henry Tilney
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.Narrator
A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.General Tilney
I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.Isabella Thorpe
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.Isabella Thorpe
No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be a heroine.Narrator
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.Catherine Morland
She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance. A misplaced shame.Narrator
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.Narrator
It is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.Narrator
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.Narrator
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.Narrator
A woman especially...if she have the misfortune to be of a literary turn, must conceal it as well as she can, or incur a certain amount of ridicule.Narrator
We are all fools in love.Isabella Thorpe
But time had brought no abatement of Mrs. Thorpe's energy...Narrator