Your friendship has been the most important of my life.
You will always have it.
Elinor Dashwood
Emma Thompson · 7 quotes
Edward
Hugh Grant · 4 quotes
Marianne Dashwood
Kate Winslet · 4 quotes
Most scenes together: Elinor Dashwood & Edward (3)
Sense and Sensibility quotes
Margaret has always wanted to travel.
I know, she's heading an expedition to China shortly. I am to go as her servant, but only on the understanding that I will be very badly treated.
Marianne does not approve of hiding her emotions. In fact, her romantic prejudices have the unfortunate tendency to set propriety at naught.
Col. Brandon She is wholly unspoiled.
Rather too unspoiled in my view. The sooner she becomes acquainted with the ways of the world the better.
Col. Brandon I knew a lady very like your sister—the same impulsive sweetness of temper—who was forced into, as you put it, "a better acquaintance with the world." The result was only ruination and despair. Do not desire it, Miss Dashwood.
Whatever his past actions, whatever his present course, at least you may be certain that he loved you.
But not enough. Not enough.
You talk of feeling idle and useless. Imagine how that is compounded when one has no hope and no choice of any occupation whatsoever.
Our circumstances are, therefore, precisely the same.
Except the you will inherit your fortune. We cannot even earn ours.
Perhaps Margaret is right.
Right?
Piracy is our only option. What is swabbing exactly?
Fanny People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them.
Fanny They're all exceedingly spoiled, I find. Miss Margaret spends all her time up trees and under furniture, and I've barely had a civil word from Marianne.
My dear Fanny, they've just lost their father. Their lives will never be the same again.
Fanny That is no excuse.
Margaret
Do you think he'll kneel down when he asks her?
Shh!
Margaret
They always kneel down.
I'm taking you for a walk.
Margaret
No, I've been on a walk.
You need another.
Margaret
It's going to rain.
It is not going to rain.
Margaret
You always say that and then it always does.
Mrs. Dashwood
Colonel Brandon will be sorely missed.
John Willoughby Why, when he is the sort of man that everyone speaks well of and no one remembers to talk to?
(quoting William Shakespeare)
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken"
Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn, to be on fire. Like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise.
What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering? For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exaltation again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.