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1 " You cannot believe everything you hear "
― , Indiscretion
2 " I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it. "
3 " People argue themselves out of their pleasures "
4 " When you are in love- everything is romantic "
5 " If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours. "
6 " A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections. "
7 " I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner. "
8 " That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten. "
9 " None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time "
10 " But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades. "
― , The Taste of Sorrow
11 " It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard "
12 " Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion "
13 " Really, I protest--what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it? "
― , An Accomplished Woman
14 " I can always forgive where I understand. "
15 " Emily’s world fascinates and disturbs: in it you can touch thick Yorkshire speech, and moorland rain slants across your mind with a smell of mossy limestone and yet you are not at home, you might almost be in Gondal or Angria except the towers and the dungeons are of the spirit, the dungeons especially; and sometimes when Emily reads out in her low, almost guttural voice Charlotte wants to run but can’t think why or where she would run to. "
16 " It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong "
17 " Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it. The spirit immediately rose up like a fanged cobra. "
18 " Curious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do. "
19 " It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt. "
20 " The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us "