I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could,with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject.

It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?