Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon Quotes
"I am determined you see, not to be denied admittance at Churchill."
"I have more than once repented that I did not marry him myself."
"I infinitely prefer the tender and liberal spirit of Manwaring."
"It is time for me to be gone; I have therefore determined on leaving them."
"I take town in my way to that insupportable spot, a country village."
"She speaks of her with so much tenderness and anxiety, lamenting so bitterly the neglect of her education."
"The purport of it frightened her so thoroughly that with a mixture of true girlish perverseness and folly."
"Frederica is too shy I think, and too much in awe of me, to tell tales."
"Flexibility of mind, a disposition easily biased by others, is an attribute which you know I am not very desirous of obtaining."
"Poor Manwaring gives me such histories of his wife’s jealousy!"
"I have done with lamentation. I look upon the event as so far decided, that I resign myself to it in despair."
"It is such an abominable trick, to be ill here, instead of at Bath, that I can scarcely command myself at all."
"My dear Alicia, of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a man of his age!"
"I am still doubtful at times, as to marriage."
"I might perhaps harden myself in time against the injustice of a general reproach."
"I shall count every moment till your arrival."
"I see you as you are. Since we parted yesterday, I have received from indisputable authority, such an history of you as must bring the most mortifying conviction of the imposition I have been under."
"Believe me, the single word of Langford is not of such potent intelligence, as to supersede the necessity of more."
"You have not been long in this country I understand. I hope you are pleased with it."
"A woman never looks better than on horseback."
"I am sure we shall be great friends," she observed with much sentiment.
"I hope I can put up with a small apartment for two or three nights, without making a piece of work."
"My dear sir, if you were to show me all the newspapers that are printed in one week throughout the kingdom, you would not persuade me of there being a surgeon in Willingden."
"I am one of those who always take things as they find them."
"The very spot which thousands seemed in need of."
"We have consulted physician after physician in vain, till we are quite convinced that they can do nothing for us."
"There is the sea and the downs and my milch-asses."
"The terrific grandeur of the ocean in a storm, its glassy surface in a calm, its gulls and its samphire, and the deep fathoms of its abysses."
"He was all ardour and truth! His genius and his susceptibilities might lead him into some aberrations."
"The coruscations of talent, elicited by impassioned feeling in the breast of man, are perhaps incompatible with some of the prosaic decencies of life."
"He seemed very sentimental, very full of some feelings or other, and very much addicted to all the newest-fashioned hard words – had not a very clear brain she presumed, and talked a good deal by rote."
"Certainly, there was no strain of doubtful sentiment, nor any phrase of difficult interpretation in Lady Denham’s discourse."
"I am not the woman to help anybody blindfold. – I always take care to know what I am about and who I have to deal with, before I stir a finger."
"The truth was that Sir Edward whom circumstances had confined very much to one spot had read more sentimental novels than agreed with him."
"Sir Edward’s great object in life was to be seductive."
"With such personal advantages as he knew himself to possess, and such talents as he did also give himself credit for, he regarded it as his duty."
"I do not think I was ever over reached in my life; and that is a good deal for a woman to say that has been married twice."
"The world is pretty much divided between the weak of mind and the strong – between those who can act and those who can not, and it is the bounden duty of the capable to let no opportunity of being useful escape them."
"The more wine I drink (in moderation) the better I am. – I am always best of an evening."
"I hope you will eat some of this toast,’ said he, ‘I reckon myself a very good toaster; I never burn my toasts – I never put them too near the fire at first."
"No, it acts on me like poison and would entirely take away the use of my right side, before I had swallowed it five minutes."
"A little novelty has a great effect in so small a place; the Miss Beauforts, who would have been nothing at Brighton, could not move here without notice."
"I never put them too near the fire at first – and yet, you see, there is not a corner but what is well browned."
"If people want to be by the sea, why don’t they take lodgings?"
"I have been taking some bitters of my own decocting, which have done wonders."
"The whole field open before them – a steep bank and pales never crossed by the foot of man at their back."
"It was impossible not to feel him hardly used; to be obliged to stand back in his own house and see the best place by the fire constantly occupied by Sir Harry Denham."