As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.