When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.