If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.

Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them

I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.