"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."
"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."
"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."
"Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly."
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."