A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

I will only add, God bless you.

Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.