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

Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror, with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor.

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy

Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.

Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.