I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.