"I sometimes wonder if I am a woman at all. I am so unfeminine."

"To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never reall…"

"I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness—to save oneself trouble."

"The truth, however ugly in itself, is always beautiful in its expression."

"Dogs are wise. They get a lot more pleasure out of life than we do."