I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

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.

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.