Iconic Lines and Quotable Passages

She had an excellent heart;—her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them.

Marianne on second attachments being impossible—a doctrine the novel will dismantle.

Marianne on dead leaves: 'Oh! ... with what transporting sensations have I formerly seen them fall!'—a touchstone of Romantic parody.

Elinor: 'I have had to disguise my feelings, and to combat those of my nearest relations'—her breakdown into self-disclosure.