"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
"We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him."
"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."
"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"
"Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation."
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."