"Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all hours, as if ever willing to change his own home for their's! - How was it to be endured?"

"To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment."

"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."

"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."

"We do not look in our great cities for our best morality."

"A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross."

"There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.""And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.""And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them."

"I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are often wrong."

"I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love."

"She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time, but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet."

"Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man is refused, till he offers."

"Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine."

"I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations; but still they cannot be equals."

"Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give."

"The promised notification was hanging over her head. The postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors -and if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained."

"One must not expect every thing."

"If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it."

"Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling."

"What are men to rocks and mountains?"

"We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him."

"Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?"

"But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward."

"Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given."

"She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men."

"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."

"I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping."

"Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? Youtake delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves.""You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. Theyare my old friends. I have heard you mention them with considerationthese last twenty years at least."

"But I will not repine. It cannot last long. He will be forgot, and we shall all be as we were before."

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

"With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his."

"I never wish to be parted from you from this day on."

"Time did not compose her."

"Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere."

"To exemplify, -a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn. Not a puncture, not a weak spot any where. -This nut... while so many of its brethren have fallen and been trodden under foot, is still in possession of all the happiness that a hazel-nut can be supposed capable of."

"I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding- certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever."

"The rent here may be low but i believe we have it on very hard terms -sense & sensibility."

"Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences."

"Is not general incivility the very essence of love?"

"Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all."

"Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy..."

"It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others."

"Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it."

"But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state."

"There are secrets in all families, you know."

"Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint."

"From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes."

"There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."

"I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy."Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what isstrong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, Iam convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away."

"It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life."