This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

Beware how you give your heart.

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.