It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

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

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

Too many cooks spoil the broth

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.