Best quotes from Sense and Sensibility

It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

When I fall in love, it will be forever.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience—or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.