I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.

He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.