Movie: Jane Austen (Becoming Jane)

No girl would show your passion if I wanted to attract a husband.

Sorry I suspected you have a sense of justice.

A novel should somehow reveal the true source of our actions.

Vice leads to possession, virtue to reward.

- Your ignorance is clear to me. Since you don't have, how to say it... experience?
- Propriety commands me to ignorance.
- Condemns you to it. And your books, unfortunately, on the status of female accomplishment. But in order to understand the real art to be on a par with the writers-men of the necessary experience.

Experience speaks only in favor of men.

- Come on! What norms of behaviour in this situation? We have been introduced, isn't it?
- What is the point in the presentation, if you can't even remember my name? Indeed, can barely stay awake in my presence!
- Madame...
- It seems that remorse seem very provincial to a gentleman with such arrogance. I didn't invent these rules, I am merely obliged to obey them.

To have a wife with a brain is considered to be inappropriate.

The emotion is absurd.

- I'd never forgive Henry.
- Forgive, we always forgive him.

A Metropolitan mind may be less susceptible to extended juvenile self-regard.

If a woman has a particular superiority, for example, an insightful mind, it is better to keep a profound secret. Humour is liked more, but wit - no. This is the most treacherous talent of them all.

I came here to explain his behavior, but I don't know how to explain my behavior...

Irony is the clash of two opposites in order to show the truth under the guise of humor. One opposite to be true, as the truth will depend on this.
(Irony is the juxtaposition of contradictory truths to make out of the contradictions to reveal new truth. The truth includes and laugh, and smile, otherwise is a lie and a denial of human nature itself.)