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.

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

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.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.