Sense and Sensibility Quotes

Mrs. Dashwood Colonel Brandon will be sorely missed.

John Willoughby Why, when he is the sort of man that everyone speaks well of and no one remembers to talk to?

Elinor Dashwood What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering? For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exaltation again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

Fanny People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

Marianne Dashwood Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn, to be on fire. Like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise.

Marianne I'm taking you for a walk.

Margaret No, I've been on a walk.

Marianne You need another.

Margaret It's going to rain.

Marianne It is not going to rain.

Margaret You always say that and then it always does.

Edward Your friendship has been the most important of my life.

Elinor You will always have it.

Elinor Whatever his past actions, whatever his present course, at least you may be certain that he loved you.

Marianne But not enough. Not enough.

Margaret Do you think he'll kneel down when he asks her?

Elinor Shh!

Margaret They always kneel down.

Taglines Lose your heart and come to your senses.

Marianne Dashwood (quoting ]) "Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O no! it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken

Elinor Margaret has always wanted to travel.

Edward I know, she's heading an expedition to China shortly. I am to go as her servant, but only on the understanding that I will be very badly treated.

Elinor You talk of feeling idle and useless. Imagine how that is compounded when one has no hope and no choice of any occupation whatsoever.

Edward Our circumstances are, therefore, precisely the same.

Elinor Except the you will inherit your fortune. We cannot even earn ours.

Edward Perhaps Margaret is right.

Elinor Right?

Edward Piracy is our only option. What is swabbing exactly?

Fanny They're all exceedingly spoiled, I find. Miss Margaret spends all her time up trees and under furniture, and I've barely had a civil word from Marianne.

Edward My dear Fanny, they've just lost their father. Their lives will never be the same again.

Fanny That is no excuse.

Elinor Marianne does not approve of hiding her emotions. In fact, her romantic prejudices have the unfortunate tendency to set propriety at naught.

Col. Brandon She is wholly unspoiled.

Elinor Rather too unspoiled in my view. The sooner she becomes acquainted with the ways of the world the better.

Col. Brandon I knew a lady very like your sister—the same impulsive sweetness of temper—who was forced into, as you put it, "a better acquaintance with the world." The result was only ruination and despair. Do not desire it, Miss Dashwood.