You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.