No, indeed, I shall grant you nothing. I always take the part of my own sex. I do indeed. I give you notice-- You will find me a formidable antagonist on that point. I always stand up for women.

“An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of eve…”

“...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”

“I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but …”

“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity o…”