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

It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.

We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.