Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.