"I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for."

"If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a…"

"A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered …"

"In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better…"

"Oh Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!"

"Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach…"

"I can see that the Lady has a genius for ruling, whilst I have a genius for not being ruled."

"The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope."

"Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep …"

"The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset — that singing of …"