"Oh! do not attack me with your fine words. I will not be talked out of my senses."

"I am not at all a fine lady."

"To be disgraced in the eyes of the world, to be ashamed of one's self! That is the misery, that is the horror!"

"I have not the least intention of marrying at present, nor have I ever had. I am much too happy as I am."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."