"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 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."
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
"Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly."
"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."