To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on.

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.

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.