for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

You have delighted us long enough.

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.