She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy

The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.