Obstinate, headstrong girl!

I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.

If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

What strange creatures brothers are!

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.