An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.