I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.
Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.
It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.
one day in the country is exactly like another.
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.