They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.