No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

You have delighted us long enough.

Beware how you give your heart.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

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

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.