London, Vintage, 2008
(1a edició: 1818)
«No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine» [pàg. 3]
«Mrs Allen was one of that numerous class of females, whose society can raise no other emotion than surprise at there being any men in the world who could like them well enough to marry them» [pàgs. 9-10]
«Catherine listened with astonishment; she knew not how to reconcile two such very different accounts of the same thing; for she had not been brought up to undestand the propensities of a rattle, nor to know to how many idle assertions and imprudent falsehoods the excess of vanity will lead» [pàg. 16]
«Here Catherine secretly acknowledged the power of love; for, though exceedingly fond of her brother, and partial to all his endowments, she han never in her life thought him handsome» [pàg. 109]
«Remember that we are English, that we are Christians. Consult your own understanding, your own sense of the probable, your own observation of what is passing around you -Does your education prepare us for such atrocities? Do our laws connive at them? Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing; where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay every thing open?» [pàg. 187]
«Of the Alps and Pyrenees, with their pine forests and their vices, they might give a faithful delineation; and Italy, Switzerland, and the South of France, might be as fruitful in horrors as they were there represented» [pàg. 189]

