Henry Tilney – Character Quotes

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

"I do not understand you."
"Then we are on very unequal terms, for I understand you perfectly well."
"Me? Yes; I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."

To be always firm must be to be often obstinate. When properly to relax is the trial of judgment.

I use the verb 'to torment', as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct', supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.

But now you love a hyacinth. So much the better.
You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Government neither desires nor dares to interfere in such matters. There must be murder; and government cares not how much.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.