Quotes from Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan

Have not women preferred hatred to indifference, and the reputation of witchcraft, with all its penalties, to absolute insignificance?

I am afraid we women are factionists; we always take a side, and nature has formed us for advocates rather than judges.

Jusging by the sour glance she threw on me as she said this, I concluded that I represented those 'late changes' to which all the sorrows of the house were referred. I felt unhappy under the ill-will even of this odious old woman, being one of those unhappily constructed mortals who cannot be indifferent when they reasonably ought, and always yearn after kindness, even that of the worthless.

Everyone has enemy; you will learn all that so soon as you are little older, and without cause she is mine

and I tell you, Austin Ruthyn, if you won't look about and marry somebody, somebody may possibly marry you.

You have zeal - have you nerve?

I have often wondered since at my own firmness. In that dreadful interview with my uncle I had felt, in the whirl and horror of my mind, on the very point of submitting, just as nervous people are said to throw themselves over precipices through sheer dread of falling.