Northanger Abbey

"No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine."

"She was fond of all boys' plays, and greatly preferred cricket not merely to dolls, but to the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush."

"I beg, Catherine, you will always wrap yourself up very warm about the throat, when you come from the Rooms at night; and I wish you would try to keep some account of the money you spend; I will give you this little book on purpose."

"Neither robbers nor tempests befriended them, nor one lucky overturn to introduce them to the hero."

"I have hitherto been very remiss, madam, in the proper attentions of a partner here; I have not yet asked you how long you have been in Bath; whether you were ever here before; whether you have been at the Upper Rooms, the theatre, and the concert; and how you like the place altogether. I have been very negligent—but are you now at leisure to satisfy me in these particulars? If you are I will begin directly."

"Now I must give one smirk, and then we may be rational again."

"no smile was demanded—Mr. Tilney did not appear."

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"Mr. Tilney was no fonder of the play than the pump-room."

"this sort of mysteriousness, which is always so becoming in a hero, threw a fresh grace in Catherine's imagination around his person and manners, and increased her anxiety to know more of him."

"My dearest creature, what can have made you so late? I have been waiting for you at least this age!"

"Have you, indeed! i am very sorry for it; but really I thought I was in very good time. It is but just one."