Victoria's Favorite Sense and Sensibility Quotes

I shall attempt to only put a few, for, as we all know, I wrote down enough notes for everyone. ;)

"'Dear, dear Norland!' said Marianne, as she wandered alone before the house, on the last evening of their being there; 'when shall I cease to regret you!—when learn to feel a home elsewhere!—Oh! happy house, could you know what I suffer in now viewing you from this spot, from whence perhaps I may view you no more! And you, ye well-known trees!—but you will continue the same. No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer! No; you will continue the same; unconscious of the pleasure or the regret you occasion, and insensible of any change in those who walk under your shade! But who will remain to enjoy you?'"

"Conversation however was not wanted, for Sir John was very chatty, and Lady Middleton had taken the wise precaution of bringing with her their eldest child, a fine little boy about six years old, by which means there was one subject always to be recurred to by the ladies in case of extremity, for they had to enquire his name and age, admire his beauty, and ask him questions which his mother answered for him..."

"Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby. She would have been ashamed to look her family in the face the next morning, had she not risen from her bed in more need of repose than when she lay down in it."

"'You and I, Sir John,' said Mrs. Jennings, 'should not stand upon such ceremony.'
'Then you would be very ill-bred,' cried Mr. Palmer.
'My love you contradict every body,' said his wife with her usual laugh. 'Do you know that you are quite rude?'
'I did not know I contradicted any body in calling your mother ill-bred.'"

"...Elinor was the only one of the three, who seemed to consider the separation as anything short of eternal."

-Tori