Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

An annuity is a very serious business.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.