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

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.

Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.