(1818)
«The worst of Bath was the number of its plain women. He did not mean that there were no pretty women, but the number of the plain was out of all proportion. He had frequently observed, as he walked, that one handsome face would be followed by thirty, or five-and-thirty frights; and once, as he had stood in a shop in Bond Street, he had counted eighty-seven women go by, one after another, without there being a tolerable face among them» [pàg. 108].
«"My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation -that is what I call good company". "You are mistaken," said he gently, "that is not good company, that is the best. Good company requires only birth, education and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Bith and good manners are essential, but a little learning is by no means a dangerous tihng in good company -on the contrary, it will do very well. My cousin, Anne, shakes her head. She is not satisfied. She is fastidious. My dear cousin"» [pàgs. 114-115].
«"Indeed, Mrs Smith, we must not expect to get real information in such a line. Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left"» [pàg. 158].
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