How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!