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| Sense and Sensibility Quotes | No. | Quotation | Subject | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | People always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them . . . | Life | Sense and Sensibility |
| 2 | He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing. He was too diffident to do justice to himself; but when his natural shyness was overcome, his behaviour gave every indication of an open, affectionate heart. | Intimacy | Sense and Sensibility |
| 3 | Her mind did become settled, but it was settled in a gloomy dejection. She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart... | Despair | Sense and Sensibility |
| 4 | Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was r | Comfort | Sense and Sensibility |
| 5 | The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. | Employment | Sense and Sensibility |
| 6 | Yet there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions. | Prejudice | Sense and Sensibility |
| 7 | They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future. | Sorrow | Sense and Sensibility |
| 8 | It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;— it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. | Intimacy | Sense and Sensibility |
| 9 | His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle. | Enjoyment | Sense and Sensibility |
| 10 | I suppose you know, ma'am, that Mr. Ferrars is married. | Marriage | Sense and Sensibility |
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