"my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be..."
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense."
"Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly."
"She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men."