His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

True love has no fear and similarly latter cannot have true love.

You don’t even know me, or what I am capable of, boy.

I hope that my daughter grows up empowered and doesn't define herself by the way she looks but by qualities that make her a intelligent, strong and responsible woman.

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest Him.

In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act and you're in the audience

Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of us but cannot at the same time demand us to increase our dues.

the force of love will change your life so fast that you will scarcely believe it!

Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.

While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.