If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

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