There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this...
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.
I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house tonight or never.
I was quiet, but I was not blind.
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Nothing is more deceitful, said Darcy, than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than eno...
But I will not repine. It cannot last long. He will be forgot, and we shall all be as we were before.
I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, said Darcy, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in thei...
When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.