I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

I must have my share in the conversation.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.