With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.

I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.