Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.