"Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.""I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions."
"And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading."
"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."
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."