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.

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

one day in the country is exactly like another.

I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.

Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.

Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.