Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves..

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed..

Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table..

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance ….

Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible,….

Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now..

'My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the same force o….

Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will you?' said he, ….

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person..

We neither of us perform to strangers..

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness..

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward fili….

Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothin….

Better be without sense than misapply it as you do..

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well..

Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witc….

I do not cough for my own amusement..

With women, the heart argues, not the mind..

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best.

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to en….

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love..