My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.