For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.