How's this, on John Dashwood:

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed... (1)

On Fanny:

The power of disappointing them, it was true, must always be hers. But that was not enough; for when people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of anything better from them. (36)

Elinor considering Robert:

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. (36)

LOL!