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 adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

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