It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time." "Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.