In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best