Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

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.