But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

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.

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.