Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.

Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.