Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will you?' said he, offering his hand. Indeed I will. You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.' Brother and sister! no, indeed.