"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."
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."
"I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh."
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
"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."