I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

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

We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!

my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.