Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beau….

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life..

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch..

Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman wh….

I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wic….

[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given..

She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet..

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?.

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity..

From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am ….

Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintan….

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it..

Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening,….

No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else..

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection..

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 m….

Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never fin….

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little m….

I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased..

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adh….

Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play..